In a recently released October 2023 defamation lawsuit deposition, businessman and always-on divorcee Elon Musk discussed the impact his posts on X (formerly Twitter) had on the business side of the social media site. Influence, he purchased the site for $44 billion in October 2022. This testimony was recently made public, Full text published in huffington post Exactly what you would expect from a man wearing a blind spot Mexican Border Live T-ShirtWHO Go with a gun Cyberpunk 2077 recording sessionand who is catcalls Valuation last year’s game.
this defamation lawsuit last fallPreviously, Musk mistakenly identified a man named Ben Brody as a protester at a neo-Nazi rally on X/Twitter.as huffington post The lawsuit reportedly accuses Musk of using his immense influence (he has nearly 180 million followers on the site) to “amplify false far-right conspiracy theories that link 22-year-old Ben Brody to Oregon’s new Brawls linked between Nazi group “Rose City” nationalists and Proud Boys, a neo-fascist fight club. ” Brody was not even in the same state as he was when the fight occurred on June 24, 2023.
according to huffington postShortly after Musk attended a two-hour deposition on March 27, his attorney Alex Spiro allegedly “filed multiple emergency motions in an attempt to keep the testimony confidential. ” I can understand why. During the deposition process (You can read the full article here), Musk acknowledged that he had “limited knowledge” of the lawsuit in which he was ousted and seemed confused about who was actually suing him.
In the deposition transcript, Brody’s attorney (Mark Banskton) mentioned Walter Isaacson’s September 2023 biography of Elon Musk, which quoted Musk jokingly saying: “I move a lot. To shoot myself in the foot, I should buy some Kevlar boots.” Bankston then asked Musk, “As of last summer, were you aware that it was somewhat difficult to suppress your impulses on Twitter?” Musk responded Says “I wouldn’t say that,” and then says he believes “the cornerstone of democracy is free speech.”
After much discussion, Bankston eventually asked Musk if his purchase of He continued:
Going back to that self-inflicted injury, Kevlar shoes, I think — I may have done — I may have done more to hurt the company financially than help it, but Of course, I — I don’t direct the content of my posts to be financially beneficial, but I think to be interesting, important, or entertaining to the public.
Musk also admitted to running an alternative account (@ermnmusk) where he pretended to be his son (who was still a toddler).The account was the focus of an April 2023 Motherboard article titled “Is this Elon Musk’s Burner Twitter account?Several of the posts, which appeared to be written from the perspective of Musk’s children with musician Grimes, have since been deleted from X/Twitter. One read: “I wish I was old enough to go to nightclubs. They sound like fun.” The account still exists under the username “Elon Test” and still regularly shares posts on the site, but it seems No longer from a toddler’s perspective (although the profile picture depicts a young child).
In his testimony, Musk also said he did not believe Broidy had been “substantially harmed” by his false accusations.