Author J.K. Rowling has fallen silent on her usually busy X (formerly Twitter) feed, after Olympic gold medalist boxer Imane Khelif filed a legal complaint in France for alleged cyber harassment over statements regarding her gender.

On August 9, lawyers for Khelif filed a lawsuit with a special unit of the public prosecutor’s office in Paris, stemming from false statements that spread online about her gender after the Algerian boxer defeated Italy’s Angela Carini in her first fight of the 2024 Olympic Games. Carini pulled out 46 seconds into the bout and told reporters afterwards that she had “never felt a punch like this.”

    • poo
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      313 months ago

      Wait how is this blatant lie allowed to remain published online? I thought the WSJ had at least some credibility?

      • @ameancow
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        93 months ago

        how is this blatant lie allowed to remain published online?

        A lot of people still think there’s consequence or rules or regulations on what publications can say or do. We abolished those laws a long time ago.

      • @Doomsider
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        03 months ago

        No modern US media has any credibility anymore. They are owned by a handful of wealthy people who don’t give a shit about truth or journalistic integrity.

    • @Fedizen
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      293 months ago

      WSJ is a Murdoch propaganda outlet

    • geogle
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      143 months ago

      Bezos has nothing to do with the Wall Street Journal

    • @jpreston2005
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      43 months ago

      The author, colin wright, touts himself as a fellow for SEGM “The Society For Evidence-Based Gender Medicine;” which is a non-profit organization that is known for its opposition to gender-affirming care for transgender youth and for engaging in political lobbying.

      He’s a POS who gets paid to write smear pieces endangering the lives of trans people, by people with even worse ideals than his own.