No Apology to Elon Musk From British Diver at ‘Pedo Guy’ Defamation Trial

No Apology to Elon Musk From British Diver at ‘Pedo Guy’ Defamation Trial
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. leaves the US District Court, Central District of California through a back door in Los Angeles, U.S. in Los Angeles, California on Dec. 3, 2019. Apu Gomes/Getty Images
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LOS ANGELES—The British cave explorer suing Elon Musk for calling him a “pedo guy” on Twitter testified on Thursday that his criticism of the Tesla Inc chief executive that led to the tweet was not a personal attack.

In the defamation trial’s third day, Vernon Unsworth also refused to apologize for a July 13, 2018, CNN interview in which he said that Musk’s offer of a mini-submarine to help rescue a boys’ soccer team from a flooded Thailand cave was a “PR stunt” and Musk could “stick his submarine where it hurts.”