"Bet ya a signed dollar it's true," Musk tweeted when someone objected to his use of the phrase "pedo guy." In a tweet a month later, he asked: "You don't think it's strange he hasn't sued me?"

Then in an email to BuzzFeed reporter Ryan Mac, Musk claimed that Unsworth traveled "to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time" and described Unsworth as a "child rapist." (Unsworth has denied these claims.)

"I fucking hope he sues me," Musk wrote. Musk labeled his email "off the record." But Mac, who hadn't agreed to keep the exchange confidential, published it anyway.

In October this year, Mac revealed Musk's source for these explosive charges: a $50,000 private investigator Musk hired to dig up dirt on Unsworth. Musk argues that his later statements were based on the investigator's preliminary findings. But the investigator turned out to have a felony fraud conviction, and he never turned up evidence supporting the claims. Unsworth's wife says she was actually 33, not 12, when she met Unsworth.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/12/musk-takes-the-stand-in-first-day-of-pedo-guy-trial/

Unsworth's wife says she was actually 33, not 12, when she met Unsworth.

Lol! Now that's funny. Musk got a $50,000 lie.

See? People know that the mere mention of pedophilia is enough to get people excited.