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Elon Musk will go to trial over 'pedo guy' comment

Tesla CEO Elon Musk will go to trial over his insults directed toward cave rescue diver Vernon Unsworth.

U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson in Los Angeles rebuffed Musk's request to dismiss Unsworth's defamation lawsuit, Bloomberg reported Monday. The trial will take place in December. 

The back-and-forth began in July 2018, with Unsworth publicly criticizing Musk's plan to rescue a junior soccer team, trapped in a cave complex in Thailand, with a mini-submarine. Musk answered Unsworth by calling him "pedo guy," seemingly accusing him of being a pedophile without providing any evidence. Musk later apologized, but then doubled down on his initial claim in an email to BuzzFeed News reporter Ryan Mac, in which he argued that Unsworth originally went to Thailand to find a child bride. (Unsworth claims he met his wife in London, and that she was 32 years old at the time.) Read more...

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from Mashable https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-unsworth-trial-december/
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