Musk has previously accused critics and rivals of pedophilia. A jury ruled in 2019 that Musk didn't defame a British cave explorer when he tweeted that the man was a 'pedo guy.'
A former Twitter executive said he was forced to sell his Bay Area home due to"a wave of homophobic and antisemitic threats" after Elon Musk implied the platform's previous head of trust and safety supported pedophilia.
Roth confirmed that he and his family sold their home in the East Bay following Musk's"defamatory allegation that I support or condone pedophilia" in December. CNN and the Washington Post reported in December that Roth and his family were forced to move after Musk tweeted that it looked"like Yoel is arguing in favor of children being able to access adult internet services in his PhD thesis," including a screenshot of an out-of-context excerpt of a 2016 dissertation Roth wrote at the University of Pennsylvania.
Musk's allegations echoed the defamatory claim that LGBTQ people are trying to"groom" children younger than the age of consent. Those false claims have grown louder this decade, as Republican lawmakers and conservative media have repeated them as justification for a growing number of proposed anti-LGBTQ laws and bans of books with LGBTQ authors, characters and themes.
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