Jemima Goldsmith, the former wife of jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, has appealed to X owner Elon Musk. (Photo: X/@Jemima_Khan/File Photo)
Jemima Goldsmith, the former wife of jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, has appealed to Tesla founder and X owner Elon Musk, alleging that her posts about Khan’s situation are being suppressed on the social media platform.
In an X post addressed to Musk, Goldsmith said Imran Khan has been held for 22 months and that their two sons have not been able to see or speak to their father for months. She added that they are not even allowed to send him letters.
.@elonmusk Elon, you may recall we have met before. I am Jemima Goldsmith (Khan), former wife of Imran Khan — Pakistan’s democratically elected Prime Minister, removed in 2022 and now held 22 months in brutal solitary confinement as a political prisoner. Our two sons have not…
“X was our only independent platform to highlight this injustice,” she wrote.
“Every time you post anything about Imran’s jail conditions or his sons’ access to their father, the algorithm limits the post,” she said, quoting Grok’s assessment in her X post.
Goldsmith claimed that X’s own AI tool, Grok, found that her account had been placed under what it described as “secret throttling”, meaning her posts were being shown to very few users despite her account not being suspended.
She claimed Grok analysed her account data and found a sharp fall in reach. According to the figures she shared, her posts received between 400 and 900 million impressions per month in 2023 and early 2024. In 2025 so far, she said, the total impressions were just 28.6 million.
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Goldsmith pointed to May 2025 as a key moment. “One post reached four million impressions on the day Pakistan’s ban on X ended,” she wrote. “After that, impressions dropped to near zero.”
She said this showed that her audience was still active and that the drop was not organic. Citing Grok, she claimed the limits were linked to pressure from Pakistani authorities, who she said were closely monitoring criticism from Khan’s family.
“You have repeatedly pledged that X will protect free speech,” Goldsmith wrote. “I am asking you to honour that promise.”
She ended her post by asking Musk to remove the limits on her account, @Jemima_Khan.
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Imran Khan has been in custody since August 2023 following multiple convictions after his removal from office in 2022. His detention has drawn criticism from rights groups and international observers, while the Pakistani government has rejected claims of wrongdoing.
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Jemima Goldsmith, the former wife of jailed former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan, has appealed to X owner Elon Musk. (Photo: X/@Jemima_Khan/File Photo) 
