I would say that the amount of damage to his reputation is exactly the sort of thing that the court case is supposed to measure. From this distance and with the

I would say that the amount of damage to his reputation is exactly the sort of thing that the court case is supposed to measure. From this distance and with the facts we have it's hard to tell. I don't live in the US so maybe you suffer more from litigation fatigue than me. If it were two nobodies trolling it out on twitter I would agree with you - who cares? But Musk's statements are heavily reported internationally and this was in the middle of an internationally-reported event and he chose to go after one of the central figures, both on twitter and in the media. Characterising that as just being mean on the internet is a little disingenuous imo.