Elon Musk’s X said it’s funding legal bills for a Canadian doctor previously chastised by regulators for her tweets about COVID-19.wrote that it’s “proud to defend” Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill against what it calls “government-supported efforts to cancel her speech.”
The doctor has an ongoing crowdfunding campaign asking for $300,000 to help pay for legal costs, including a cost order related to a lawsuit she launched against what she called a “malicious online smear campaign.” Gill tagged Musk in a post asking him for help earlier this week, saying she owed around $300,000 in costs that were due in four days.against 23 defendants. The claim was dismissed, awarding costs to the defendants totalling more than $1.1 million.
Last August, Musk posted on X promising to fund the legal bills of anyone who was “unfairly treated” by their employers “due to posting or liking something on this platform.”It’s been almost a year and a half since Musk bought Twitter for US$44 billion, taking the formerly publicly traded company private.