Elon Emails

Musk: publishing would 'destroy your journalistic credibility'

From:
Elon Musk
Date:
September 4, 2018
To:
Ryan Mac (BuzzFeed News)
Subject:
Re: BuzzFeed News: Unsworth legal letter
Off the record We haven't had a conversation at all. I sent you an off the record email, which very clearly and unambiguously said 'off the record'. If you want to publish off the record comments and destroy your journalistic credibility, that's up to you. As for answering more questions, I would be happy to do so, but not with someone who just told me that they will not honor accepted rules of journalism.

About this email

Musk insists his earlier email was unambiguously off the record and warns Mac that publishing it would destroy his credibility.

Notes

Musk Decl. Ex. L (also Wilson Decl. Ex. 19). The exhibit prints the chain newest-first with nested 'On ... wrote:' lines; times given here are a best reading of those lines. Sent Tue Sep 4, 2018, about 10:53 AM.

Where it came from

Court record; attribution confirmed.

Personal, press & journalists. Tags: unsworth-case, buzzfeed, ryan-mac, defamation, off-the-record