Elon Musk

Elon Musk did not defame a British diver who helped in last year's Thai cave rescue with a "pedo guy" tweet, a US jury has found. Vernon Unsworth was seeking $190m (£145m) in damages from the Tesla founder, over the tweet sent last year. A public row broke …

Elon Musk won.  A jury in Los Angeles found that the Tesla founder was not liable for damages in a lawsuit brought against him by British cave diver Vernon Unsworth. The jury returned its verdict Friday after a four-day trial in which Musk testified for near…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Vernon Unsworth told the court he felt "humiliated" by the tweet A UK diver wants $190m (£145m) damages from Elon Musk for a tweet calling him "pedo guy", a US court has heard. Vernon Unsworth, who helped rescue 12 boys tra…

Image copyrightEPAImage caption Vernon Unsworth told a court that he felt branded by Mr Musk's posts A British cave expert has testified that he was left feeling "humiliated, ashamed" and "dirtied" after Elon Musk labelled him "pedo guy" online. Vernon Un…

Just balls, and only the balls.  Eccentric billionaire and owner of stankmemes.com Elon Musk has plenty of appropriately oddball passions. His love of flamethrowers and snails is well known, for example. However, it was only today that his interest in ball-r…

I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out whats actually going on and stop defending child rapists, you fucking asshole. Elon Musk in an email to Buzzfeed dated 30 August, 2018. In another sign of just how ridiculous the US justice system…

Elon Musk apologized to the jury before reading some of his tweets aloud while testifying in court Wednesday. "I was calling myself Treelon at that time," he said, explaining an unusual Twitter avatar and name displayed on the screen. The room tittered, but…

While testifying in U.S. District Court Tuesday, Elon Musk had to square off against one of his worst enemies: bureaucracy.  The Tesla CEO was subject to the sloth of the justice system as he answered painstaking questions from the prosecution and waited thr…

Image copyrightAFPImage caption Lawyers for British diver Vernon Unsworth (L) said Mr Musk's tweets were "vile and false" Tesla founder Elon Musk has appeared in court in California to answer a lawsuit brought by a British cave diver he called "pedo guy" o…

Elon is defending and Amazon is offending, but first: a cartoon about a voice assistant betrayal Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! Elon Musk is set to …