Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and owner of the social media platform X, recently underwent a deposition that has been made public, revealing several intriguing details about his online activities. The deposition is related to a lawsuit filed by Ben Brody, a 22-year-old man who alleges that Musk contributed to a conspiracy theory about him.
During the deposition, Musk confirmed the existence of some of his alternative accounts on X. His lawyer, Alex Spiro, had requested that the deposition be kept confidential, but it was made public this week. Musk also admitted during the deposition that he had never read Walter Isaacson’s biography about him.
The deposition also revealed that Musk may have caused more financial harm than good to the X platform. These revelations were part of several heated exchanges that took place over Zoom between Musk, his lawyer, and the plaintiff’s attorney, Mark Bankston.
In a separate but related matter, Twitter has filed a lawsuit against Musk, alleging that he is still obligated to pay for a $44 billion deal he had previously agreed to but later tried to cancel. Twitter’s court filing in Delaware refutes Musk’s claims about the purchase agreement, describing them as “factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant.”