• by Ray Schultz , May 1, 2023

Elon Musk, who owns one of the largest information platforms in the U.S., has settled  defamation case. But it didn’t concern Twitter--rather, it was filed by Randeep Hothi, graduate student and critic whom Musk falsely accused in an email of almost killing a Tesla security guard security guard in the firm’s parking lot. 

It wasn’t a big settlement as defamation cases go—a mere $10,000. But it was “a belated acknowledgment that this case was just,” said D. Gill Sperlein, a lawyer for Hothi, according to the Los Angeles Times.  

The incident occurred in February 2019. Local law enforcement authorities reviewed a video of Hothi pulling out of the parking lot after being told to leave and saw no reason to charge, the Times continues.