While the piece presents evidence this Adrian Dittman is possibly connected to the account, it stops short of proving Elon Musk is not—hence the hedging below—and doesn’t address why “Dittman” has used first person talking about Musk and *many* other factors leading people to believe it is Musk. 1/ - ThreadSky

leahmcelrath.bsky.social • 58 days ago

While the piece presents evidence this Adrian Dittman is possibly connected to the account, it stops short of proving Elon Musk is not—hence the hedging below—and doesn’t address why “Dittman” has used first person talking about Musk and *many* other factors leading people to believe it is Musk.

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Reposted from Jacqueline Sweet

SCOOP: Sorry everyone, Adrian Dittmann X most likely is not Elon Musk's alt. It appears Adrian Dittmann is...Adrian Dittmann.

My story here:

thespectator.com/topic/real-a...

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boboinparadise.bsky.social•58 days ago

One can be an imposter or using a proxy. The latter provides a wealthy patron w deniability.

apollymikatistrafi.bsky.social•58 days ago

Very "don't look at that man behind the curtain" vibe from this, ngl

kurtpaints.bsky.social•58 days ago

Honestly why do we even give a fuck. Don't need any further evidence to prove he's pathetic.
Got any leads on these false flag/psy-op "terror attacks"?

observerbs.bsky.social•58 days ago

If there is a Dittman and he's not Musk, then they can do a live video together. "Dittman" talks pretty much exactly like Musk.

orleancooper.bsky.social•58 days ago

Vocally, South Africa via San Francisco and Germany via Fiji are clearly the exact same thing.

leahmcelrath.bsky.social•58 days ago

The piece also doesn’t address the possibility of coordination and argues that people believe "Dittman" is Musk only because of accent similarities and that the belief is a left-wing phenomenon, both of which are false.

It is interesting but inconclusive.

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Non-paywalled link:
https://archive.is/Dj4kJ

rebussy.bsky.social•58 days ago

FWIW I first heard about 'Dittman' early last year, via Knowledge Fight's coverage of him being a 'guest-caller/interviewee' for Alex Jones.

Clearly, part of the story has been 'habilitating' Musk with the White Supremacist/Christian Nationalist faction(s) Jones cultivates and grifts from.

samcrut.bsky.social•58 days ago

Riiiight, because people mistake German for South African all the.... never. They're not even remotely similar.

samcrut.bsky.social•58 days ago

Elon got caught, and he's doing damage control by having articles printed to back up his lie, and to get people to stop saying how pathetic he is for saying he's such a good father and such, a claim I've never heard from any other source. I've read his kids' comments. They are not good.

leahmcelrath.bsky.social•58 days ago

Musk has made it clear he knows who is behind the account, so the possibility of coordination between this Dittman and Musk is not far-fetched.

Sharing accounts/alts isn’t uncommon in the world of trolling and online ops, a world Musk inhabits.

The piece raises more questions than it answers.

3/

leahmcelrath.bsky.social•58 days ago

Musk is a VERY online person who is familiar with the fringes of the internet where online ops are discussed and has a history of using alts for trolling, which he admitted under oath in his custody case with Grimes.

He also owns X and has unlimited resources.

Multiple scenarios are possible.

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leahmcelrath.bsky.social•58 days ago

As someone who has been part of the hacker and online ops world for 15 years (more an observer than a participant but deeply embedded), I’d suggest approaching this story from a normie perspective misses the dynamics inherent to that world with which Musk is familiar.

The mindfuck is the point.

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vwinsloe.bsky.social•58 days ago

Lots of accounts are shared by more than one person. Particularly spouses when one is more controlling or less technologically adept than the other.

leahmcelrath.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yep, and it’s a particularly common practice in the online ops world.

rob3l.bsky.social•58 days ago

The plot twist is that the Jaqueline Sweet account is an Elon Musk burner trying to exonerate another one of his burner accounts.

justanalgorithm.bsky.social•58 days ago

The one where he created an alt pretending to be a child 🤪

secondthrowaway.bsky.social•58 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/secondthrowaway.bsky.social/post/3lews7mk5js2s

nih-llamas.bsky.social•58 days ago

I admit I failed to consider how one of musk's millions of fans might sound like him, but there's also the 1st person blunders. Unless of course a Musk fan is doing it on purpose, or... wacky.

melissjpeltier.bsky.social•58 days ago

His cadence is unique. I have multiple South African friends & collagues & none of them use his odd emphases & cadences.

justanalgorithm.bsky.social•58 days ago

Listened to a little of the gaming stream Dittman did with ConnorEatsPants last night. It is more combative conversation than usual. He gets upset in all the places you expect Elon would too. If its not him this guy is a deep method actor who spent long time in the tranches studying for this role.

leahmcelrath.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yeah, it’s all very weird, and I think approaching any investigation into it based on the idea it’s only about the accent is disingenuous.

krainboltgreene.bsky.social•58 days ago

All the "slip ups" so far are from Dittman himself, which obviously if he's an impersonator the incentive is to create that confusion.

escritoraclaro.bsky.social•58 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/escritoraclaro.bsky.social/post/3lewwkcmih22l

aliagvr.bsky.social•58 days ago

It’s 100% Musk. I checked in on and off and too many buddies of his accidentally slip and call him Elon.

When you’re at home on ketamine and ramped up, you don’t hold the same relative public speaking nerves (Musk is afraid of public speaking). Zero doubt.

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