Elon Musk Sued by Tesla Twitter Critic for Defamation

Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is accused in a lawsuit of defaming a long-time critic of the company and triggering an online hate campaign against him.

Randeep Hothi, a University of Michigan graduate student known as “@skabooshka” on Twitter, says after Musk accused him of “almost” killing Tesla employees, he was hit with “an onslaught of hateful Twitter responses, accusing Hothi of being a liar, a murderer, a terrorist, and a deranged maniac.”