Teflon Musk Wins Again With Escape From Defamation Firestorm
- Billionaire CEO emerges unscathed from another controversy
- ‘Goliath wins almost every time,’ says lawyer for man who sued
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Even before the verdict came in Friday, Elon Musk had earned the sobriquet Teflon Man on Twitter.
Once a jury decided that he hadn’t defamed a British man by calling him a “pedo guy” in a post on the social media platform -- Musk’s favorite -- his reputation as a controversy-stirring billionaire who escapes relatively unscathed from the firestorms he creates for himself seemed to be sealed.