Tech billionaire Elon Musk has confirmed that the social media platform X will be picking up the tab for the remainder of an anti-lockdown Canadian doctor’s legal bills.
Despite her professional regulator never receiving a patient complaint on her behalf, Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill says she became the target of a “very malicious campaign” prompting her to sue her critics in a lawsuit ultimately dismissed under Ontario’s anti-SLAPP law.
She asked Musk for his assistance in a public post on X, to which the billionaire replied “We will help.”
X posted Sunday morning, confirming it is “proud to help defend Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill against the government-supported efforts to cancel her speech.”
“The legal battles that ensued cost Dr. Gill her life savings, and she now owes $300,000 in a court judgment due Monday,” the platform’s post wrote. “When Elon Musk learned earlier this week about her crowdfunding campaign to pay the judgment… he pledged to help. X will now fund the rest of Dr. Gill’s campaign so that she can pay her $300,000 judgment and her legal bills.”-- excerpt, rest at link above --
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