How Elon Musk Could Beat His Latest Defamation Lawsuit
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Arguments on social media can be freewheeling and nasty; comments and accusations are often light on facts. The defamation suit filed this week against Elon Musk might test the limits of that rough-and-tumble.The lawsuit revolves around events of last June, when two far-right groups, the Proud Boys and the Rose City Nationalists, planned to protest Pride Night events in Portland, but wound up brawling with each other instead. In the course of the fighting, two members of Rose City were unmasked. A Twitter user posted a photograph of one of them alongside a photograph of a college student named Ben Brody. “Very odd,” Musk wrote back. Brody is now suing Musk, according to the complaint, for amplifying the original tweet and harming his reputation. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to j...