Jemima Goldsmith tells Elon Musk: stop blocking posts about Imran Khan Harriet BarberDecember 13, 2025 at 7:30 AM 0 Jemima Goldsmith has been trying to use X to share information about her exhusband, Imran Khan Samir Hussein Jemima Goldsmith has urged Elon Musk to stop suppressing posts on X about her jailed exhusband Imran Khan, accusing the social media company of "secret throttling". Mr Khan, 73, the former cricketer and prime minister of Pakistan, has been in prison in Rawalpindi since his Aug 2023 arrest on corruption charges, which he has said were politically motivated.
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Jemima Goldsmith has been trying to use X to share information about her ex-husband, Imran Khan - Samir Hussein
Jemima Goldsmith has urged Elon Musk to stop suppressing posts on X about her jailed ex-husband Imran Khan, accusing the social media company of "secret throttling".
Mr Khan, 73, the former cricketer and prime minister of Pakistan, has been in prison in Rawalpindi since his Aug 2023 arrest on corruption charges, which he has said were politically motivated.
His family have said he has been held in "solitary confinement in a death cell" and access to him has been blocked.
Ms Goldsmith, 51, who was married to Mr Khan from 1995 to 2004, said she believed Mr Musk's social media platform was restricting posts about the conditions in prison.
In a post she shared on Instagram and X, she quoted Grok – an "anti-woke" AI chatbot developed by Mr Musk's company xAI – which reportedly said: "Every time you post anything about Imran's jail conditions, solitary confinement or your son's access to their father, the algorithm limits the post."
Mr Musk's chatbot Grok can respond to questions and, when prompted, reply to comments on X - Jaap Arriens / NurPhoto
She said Grok also said the Pakistani authorities "have made criticism from Imran Khan's immediate circle one of their top online enforcement priorities", adding that "X is quietly complying just enough to keep the platform alive in the country".
Mr Khan is serving 14 years in prison over a corruption case in which he was accused of receiving land as a bribe from a property tycoon through a trust he set up while in office.
Ms Goldsmith said he was a political prisoner and that his name and image were banned from every Pakistani TV and radio station. The only known image of him since his imprisonment is a single grainy court photograph.
In the post shared on Instagram, Ms Goldsmith wrote directly to Mr Musk, calling on him to protect free speech
She wrote: "X was therefore our only independent platform to highlight this injustice. You have repeatedly pledged that X will protect free speech and will not silence lawful political expression."
She also cited information provided by Grok that suggests the number of people viewing her posts on X collapsed by 97% in 2025 – from an average of 400m to 900m per month in 2023 and early 2024, to 28.6m this year.
Her post said the turning point was in May, when a ban Pakistan had imposed on X was lifted, and one of her posts spiked to four million impressions, before her reach "were crushed" and dropped to close to zero.
Kasim Khan, one of Mr Khan and Ms Goldsmith's two sons, told the Telegraph last month that Pakistan was "keeping him in a death cell 22 hours a day, denying him his doctor, restricting family calls for six months at a time, cutting him off after we spoke publicly – that is psychological torture". He added: "It's calculated cruelty designed to break him."
In March 2024, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention termed Khan's detention arbitrary and politically motivated. Pakistani authorities have denied any mistreatment.
Mr Musk has not responded to Ms Goldsmith's posts. He speaks frequently about free speech, claiming that X is a "free speech platform" where all lawful speech should be allowed and censorship kept to an absolute minimum.
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