JK Rowling And Elon Musk Named In Olympian Imane Khelif’s ‘Cyber Harassment’ Lawsuit

JK Rowling and Elon Musk are among the final public figures named in Olympian Imane Khelif’s lawsuit in opposition to X, the social media online web issue formerly incessantly known as Twitter.

Khelif’s presence on the 2024 Olympics in Paris distress up generating a amount of dialog attributable to mistaken claims and misinformation about her intercourse while competing in females’s boxing.

This dialog became exacerbated even extra when public figures admire Rowling weighed in, in particular after the Harry Potter author posted a represent of Khelif in competition with Italian boxer Angela Carini, falsely accusing the old of being a “male… enjoying the distress of a lady he’s true punched within the top.”

Musk – the owner of X – moreover reposted a represent of Khelif’s opponent accompanying the message “men don’t belong in females’s sports activities,” adding: “Absolutely.”

The Algerian gold medallist, who identifies as neither transgender nor intersex, filed a felony complaint to French authorities for “acts of aggravated cyber harassment” earlier this week, along with her lawyer Nabil Boudi confirming to Diversity that every Rowling and Musk are named attributable to their posts, “among others.”

“[Donald] Trump tweeted, so whether or no longer he’s named in our lawsuit, he’ll inevitably be looked into as piece of the prosecution,” Boudi added.

According to Diversity, the controversial cyber web personality Logan Paul moreover posted, and deleted, a comment falsely labeling Khelif a “man,” sooner than conceding he “also can be responsible of spreading misinformation.”

No matter the controversy, Khelif at closing emerged triumphant in females’s boxing, picking up the gold medal within the welterweight event closing week.

She became as soon as seen celebrating her victory alongside her fellow champions at some level of Sunday night’s closing ceremony on the Stade de France in Paris.