It seems that the ongoing defamation trial involving SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has, among other things, presented an unexpected insight into his interests.
The surprising reveal was delivered by Ryan Mac, senior tech reporter for BuzzFeed News, who alleged that Jared Birchall, head of Musk's family office, was attempting to purchase a certain ball-related domain, under a fake name no less.
“Defense brings up a march 2018 email from Birchall using the Jim Brickhouse name and email when he was trying to buy a web domain for Musk”, he tweeted. “The domain Musk wanted to buy was justballs.com”.
Y’all gonna love this. Defense brings up a march 2018 email from Birchall using the Jim brickhouse name and email when he was trying to buy a web domain for Musk.
— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) 4 декабря 2019 г.
The domain Musk wanted to buy was https://t.co/CFfgz8KX5N.
Terms were never agreed and they never bought it.
Mac noted, however, that the purchase did not take place.
News of this development left some social media users wondering about the nature of the domain Musk was allegedly trying to purchase, while others quipped about balls and a certain presentation involving the Tesla CEO.
I’m pretty sure my dad bought a bucket of baseballs from that site before the 2000 dot-com crash.
— Benjamin Freed (@brfreed) 4 декабря 2019 г.
They sell these great little metal pétanque balls, seem recently on stage! pic.twitter.com/ULZKo1BAWK
— 𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚛𝚕𝚘.𝚜𝚙𝚊𝚌𝚎 (@stirlospace) 5 декабря 2019 г.
And some netizens also took note of the way Musk's name was spelled in a certain tweet related to this issue.
Elon Mask pic.twitter.com/lue6cPLqkz
— La loi de ma bouche #AyitiNouVleA (@laloidemabouche) 5 декабря 2019 г.
I think he is "Masking" his intentions
— Prince Philip🌹 (@Prince_Philip84) 5 декабря 2019 г.
