Elon Musk Is NO Stranger To Court Proceedingsbut you wouldn’t know this reading this statement, which was released on Monday. Musk was deposed in a lawsuit over Tesla’s CEO falsely tweeting that an out-of-state student was secretly a federal agent sent to disguise himself as a neo-Nazi and start a fight with the Proud Boys over the Making conservatives look bad.
As Rolling Stone ReportsThis case concerns a 22-year-old Jewish man named Ben Brody. Back in June, a group of Proud Boy thugs got into an altercation with members of the neo-Nazi group Rose City Nationalists, who terrorized them, at the first Pride Night Fest in Oregon City. Using images posted online, people were able to associate names with faces. In an attempt to portray the brawl as a “false flag” staged by a federal agency, conservative reports began falsely claiming that Brody was one of those involved.
Brody wasn’t even in Oregon at the time of the brawl, but that didn’t stop right-wing reports from claiming he was a federal agent and leaking his personal information. Musk responded to a tweet saying, “Always take off their masks,” and later responded to a separate post saying, “Looks like one is a student (who wants to join the government) and another may be antifa.” Member, but still, “a likely false flag situation.”
This second reply was viewed more than a million times and eventually the harassment became so severe that Brody and his family had to leave their home. He filed the lawsuit in October and despite attempts by Musk’s lawyer to keep the statement secret, the court released it to the public on Monday. And while it’s kind of old news at this point that Musk constantly falls for right-wing conspiracy theories, he somehow managed to make himself even worse during the statement.
Musk essentially admitted everything Brody claimed in his lawsuit, including the fact that he never sought further information and gleaned everything he thought he knew from those Twitter posts. Asked if he had looked at the account he was replying to to see her other tweets, Musk said, “I haven’t tried to assess her credibility.” He also claimed he had “a limited understanding” about “what the lawsuit is about,” and accused Brody’s lawyer of secretly being the one who actually sued him “about.”[get] a lot of money.”
Musk also tried to avoid responsibility for not checking the accounts he interacts with, saying: “If you suggest that in order to reply to someone you have to scroll through all the posts, that would increase usage.” of the system impossible.” However, in the end he said: “I am guilty of many self-inflicted wounds.”
Other comments should definitely concern investors, including Musk saying, “I may have done more to harm the company financially than to help it.” I don’t base my contributions on what is financially beneficial “But what I think is interesting, important, or entertaining to the public.” Nothing says “great investment” like when the owner of a company admits that he is hurting that company’s finances.
In an unexpected twist, Musk also admitted that he was behind an account with the username @Ermnmusk, where he role-played as his three-year-old son and posted things like, “I wish I was old enough to go there.” nightclubs. “You sound so funny” and “Do you like Japanese girls?” Why a billionaire wanted to pretend to be a child on the internet we can’t say, but it’s definitely creepy and strange. On the other hand, this is Elon Musk we are talking about, so scary and strange that it goes along with this topic.
Musk also admitted to having a second burner account, which appeared to be incorrectly listed as “Baby Smoke 9,000” in the transcript, but is most likely @babysmurf9000. This one wasn’t as creepy and weird as the one where he pretended to be a toddler, but he used it to call Mark Cuban an idiot, so there’s that.
He also claimed that he had no idea that Brody had asked for his “false flag” posts to be retracted, and that even though millions of followers had seen his posts, he did not believe that Brody was “through this was significantly damaged.” According to Musk, it is “rare” for incidents like this to have a “significant negative impact” on victims.
Great guy, that Elon Musk. Truly our best and brightest.