Jemima Goldsmith Khan, ex-wife of ex-Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, claimed that her X account was secretly throttled – its reach is being killed on social media – and wrote a personal plea to Elon Musk, the owner of the social media platform.
Jemima, a British television producer, claimed that whenever she talks about Imran and his illegal solitary confinement for nearly 22 months, the reach of the post in Pakistan and often globally is limited to almost zero.
In a series of X posts to Musk, she provided statistics to support her claim and asked him to “fix the visibility filtering” so she could get a message about her husband.
Here is what Jemima Khan claimed:
In X’s lengthy post, Jemima Khan said: “Elon, you may remember we’ve met before,” and reintroduced herself as Imran Khan’s ex-wife – “Pakistan’s democratically elected prime minister, removed in 2022 and now held for 22 months in brutal solitary confinement as a political prisoner.”
The producer claimed that her two sons with Imran “have not seen their father all this time, have not spoken to him for months and are not even allowed to send him letters”.
“His name is banned from all Pakistani television and radio stations,” she added, adding that Musk’s X is their “only independent platform to highlight this injustice.”
However, according to xAI-owned Grok, she said: “Every time you post anything about Imran’s conditions in prison, solitary confinement, or your son’s access to their father, the algorithm will limit the post… The Pakistani authorities have made criticism from Imran Khan’s inner circle one of their top online priorities, and the X platform is quietly following enough in the country to keep it alive.”
Addressing Musk, Jemima said: “You have repeatedly pledged that X will protect free speech and not silence lawful political speech.”
She said Grok examined her X analytics (3.56 million followers) and concluded that her account was subject to what Grok called “secret restriction,” where an algorithm intentionally hides her posts from almost everyone, even if the account isn’t suspended.
She also shared the following “incriminating evidence Grok found”:
• In 2023-early 2024, I averaged 400-900 million views per month (normal reach for my follower count).
• For the full year 2025, however, impressions dropped to just 28.6 million total – a 97% drop to <3% of expected hit.
• The tipping point was May 2025: one post went up to 4 million views the day the X ban ended in Pakistan (proving my audience was still engaged), then impressions immediately crushed to almost zero and stayed there. All these numbers and ratings are verbatim from Grok.
Jemima Khan’s personal request from Elon Musk
Jemima Khan has asked Elon Musk to “respect the freedom of speech” he promised when he took over Twitter.
“I’m asking you to honor the free speech promises you made for this platform. Please remove the ‘secret stranglehold’ Grok identified on @Jemima_Khan,” she said.
In another tweet, she wrote: “X is the only place we can still tell the world that he is a political prisoner without basic human rights. Yet every time I post about him, the reach in Pakistan (and often globally) is limited to almost zero.”
“You promised freedom of speech, not ‘speak but no one hears,'” she said.
Screenshot of Jemima Khan’s X post
“Please fix the visibility filtering on my account so we can send the message!” repeated Jemima.
