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Reminder that Musk once wrote an email to buzzfeed stating "“I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, you fucking asshole", about Vernon Unsworth, the man who saved 12 children from dying in the Tham Luang cave. He had no proof and went on to accuse him of not even being a diver.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-thai-... https://www.ccn.com/5-saucy-elon-musk-revelations-in-explosi...




And then won a legal case by arguing that it was just a generic insult not a specific allegation (and having expensive lawyers).


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Except that his email to buzzfeed clearly targeted Unsworth. Legal muddling by Musks lawers led Unsworth's to get the email out of the lawsuit, to save time and money, but that ended to be a bad legal strategy.


Okay, so then to win that pointless online argument he argued to a journalist investigating it that it was a true allegation and accused them, the journalist, of protecting pedophiles.

There's no way he comes out of this not looking like a petty, power-mad, knowingly-lying psychopath.


I didn't say that he doesn't. What I said is that it isn't defamation.




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