Before anyone tries to pull a "Free Speech" card on it, #ImaneKhelif, the #Olympics, Algerian and French governments suing over #ElonMusk, #JKRowling, and #DonaldTrump calling her a "man" to scapegoat her into the anti-trans/anti-feminism political discourse isn't a case of "silencing political beliefs", it's a case of #libel and #slander. Not only have these been illegal and pretty much every society for as long as law was codified, but they have a basis protecting people from misinformation.
The best defense for a libel suit, of course, is to show a good enough reason that you would believe this #misinformation is the reality, to offset the potential harm you knew spreading it could do, but as the primary (incredibly wealthy and powerful) instigators of a piece of wild misinformation, they can't claim "someone else told me".
This will be interesting to see play out!