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Here's Why Elon Musk Is Helping An Indian-Origin Anti-Lockdown Doctor Pay Her Legal Fees

Amid her legal battle, the Indian-origin doctor started a crowdfunding page to collect money and donations to pay her legal fees. Seeing this on social media platform X, Elon Musk reached out to the doctor and offered her support to pay her fees.

TN World Desk

Updated Mar 28, 2024, 08:49 IST

Here's Why Elon Musk Is Helping An Indian-Origin Anti-Vax, Anti-Lockdown Doctor Pay Her Legal Fees

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Ottawa: Elon Musk has offered to help an Indian-origin doctor in Canada who spoke up against government-imposed lockdowns during the COVID pandemic. The Indian, Dr Kulvunder Kaur Gill needs to pay around CAD 300,000 (approx Rs 2 Crores) in legal fees for a lawsuit that was filed against her for making anti-vaccination and anti-lockdown tweets

"X is proud to help defend Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill against the government-supported efforts to cancel her speech....Because she spoke out publicly on Twitter (now X) in opposition to the Canadian and Ontario governments’ COVID lockdown efforts and vaccination mandates, she was harassed by the legacy media, censored by prior Twitter management, and subjected to investigations and disciplinary proceedings by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario that resulted in “cautions” being placed on her permanent public record," stated the official account for X News.

Elon Musk reposted this announcement and expressed support for Dr Gill and her "right to speak".

Dr Gill was extremely local during the COVID-19 pandemic on X, formerly Twitter, where she made various anti-vaccination and anti-lockdown posts. As per reports, Gill had been vocal about how the COVID-19 vaccine is "unesccesary".

Her posts were heavily criticised by the medical community, who continued to debunk various myths around the COVID-19 vaccination. In retaliation, Dr Gill sued around 23 doctors, journalists, and news outlets, for defamation.

The lawsuit was dismissed by the judge who cited the anti-SLAPP law (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) and stated that Dr Gill intended to stifle her critics' speech on a public platform. She was then ordered to cover the defendants' legal expenses.

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