Musk Deposed in Lawsuit Over False Tweets That Forced Student to Flee Home

• Elon Musk was deposed in a lawsuit over falsely tweeting that a college student was a federal agent sent to provoke a fight between neo-Nazis and Proud Boys. This forced the student and his family to flee their home due to harassment.

• In the deposition, Musk admitted to everything the student alleged, including that Musk never verified the tweets he was replying to and had limited understanding of the lawsuit.

• Musk said his tweets are not guided by financial interests but by what he finds "interesting or important or entertaining to the public", even if that financially impairs his companies.

• Musk admitted to having a fake Twitter account where he roleplayed as his young son, as well as another burner account he used to call Mark Cuban an idiot.

• Musk claimed he didn't know the student asked him to retract the tweets and said it's "rare" for incidents like this to meaningfully harm victims.