Elon Musk was found not guilty of defaming a British rescue diver he had called a “pedo guy” on Twitter, a jury in Los Angeles ruled on Friday afternoon.
“My faith in humanity is restored,” Musk told courthouse reporters shortly afterwards.
Musk, who runs both Space X and Tesla Inc., was sued in Sept. 2018 by Vernon Unsworth, who played an instrumental role in saving 13 members of a Thai soccer club trapped in an underwater cave earlier in the year.
During the ordeal, Musk offered a backup plan to rescue the team involving a mini-submarine — a plan that ultimately went unused in the successful rescue mission.