> Hiring the private investigator speaks of bad intent: Musk should not have been allowed to claim " I didn't mean it" if he went looking for evidence that.. he

> Hiring the private investigator speaks of bad intent: Musk should not have been allowed to claim " I didn't mean it" if he went looking for evidence that.. he did mean it. Truth is an absolute defence to defamation in the US. So Musk's legal+pr teams probably decided to check that out on the off chance that it was true.