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- Last fall, Musk let go of X employees working on moderation efforts.
- One employee in Ireland now claims that a Musk tweet criticizing his team's work is defamatory.
- An Ireland court is allowing a defamation case against Musk to move forward, RTE reports.
An X employee is pursuing legal defamation claims against Elon Musk.
Lawyers for Aaron Rodericks, who remained with Twitter after Musk acquired the platform and eventually renamed it X, received permission Monday from an Irish court to serve Musk related to the defamation claims, according to an RTE report, the country's major news outlet and broadcaster.