Elon Musk to face trial over ‘pedo guy’ tweets, court denies

Exactly. Though at the pretrial hearing "Musk lawyers argued that the case should be tossed because his statements were insults rather than allegations, so they didn’t constitute defamation,"* (which makes me think they definitely do NOT have any evidence that Unsworth is a "pedo" or any kind of "rapist"), as you can see from The Sun article, when Musk was raging over Unsworth he really tried to use online media like Buzzfeed to at once both dirty him up and get them to help him find something actually damning which is far worse than just insults.

I mean, what a douche Musk is. Claiming Usworth's 40 year-old girlfriend who was 33 when they got together is his child bride who was "about 12" when he moved to Thailand? Like, shut up, Musk, just tell the lady she looks young and you assumed the worst just because you yourself look like a freaky crypt keeper. Yicchhhh.

And the very specific amount Unsworth is suing for "He is looking for damages worth £57,000,"** makes it seem like there might be some very concrete damages involved; perhaps Unsworth lost out on some potential income in the wake of the libelous comments.

*cnbc.com article liked in op
**thesun.co.uk article linked above