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12-09-2019, 08:56 AM
Filed under: Government/Legal (https://www.autoblog.com/category/government-legal/),Green (https://www.autoblog.com/category/green-auto-news/),Tesla (https://www.autoblog.com/tesla)
https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims3/GLOB/crop/2093x1178+0+31/resize/800x450!/format/jpg/quality/85/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-12/23ff0bb0-187c-11ea-8777-9b51b001e3cc The victory by Tesla Inc's outspoken chief executive over a Twitter message describing a British cave explorer as "pedo guy" has raised the bar for what amounts to libel online, according to some legal experts. Musk defended his comments as trivial taunts made on a social media platform that he argued everyone views as a world of unfiltered opinion, which is protected as free speech, rather than statements of fact. "I think this verdict reflects that there is a feeling that internet tweets andContinue reading Elon Musk's defamation win may redraw the legal landscape for social media (https://www.autoblog.com/2019/12/09/elon-musk-defamation-law-insults-social-media/)
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