Musk is going on trial for his troublesome tweets in a case pitting the billionaire against a British diver he allegedly dubbed a pedophile. — AP
Tesla co-founder Elon Musk insisted on Wednesday that a tweet in which he described a British caver as "pedo guy" amounted to a flippant remark and did not mean he was accusing the man of pedophilia.
"Pedo guy is less significant than pedo. If you add guy to something, it's less serious," the 48-year-old tech billionaire testified on the second day of his defamation trial in Los Angeles federal court.
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