After days of speculation that X owner Elon Musk was secretly posting under an account named Adrian Dittmann, new evidence suggests Dittmann is, in fact, a real person living in Fiji.
Attempts to connect Dittmann and Musk go back at least to 2023; Dittmann frequently makes fawning posts about Musk, and his voice (as heard on numerous X Spaces) sounds quite similar.
But a story in The Spectator appears to have identified the real Dittmann, the son of a German software entrepreneur who’s started multiple companies in Fiji. This Dittmann was included in a Fijian government video of a recent warehouse opening.
Hacker and writer maia arson crimew subsequently took credit for working with Ryan Fae to track Dittmann down. In a blog post, they offered more detailed evidence that the Dittmann in Fiji is the Dittmann on X — for one thing, the Dittmann in the warehouse video appears to be wearing the same ring as one featured in multiple cooking videos that Dittmann posted (and subsequently deleted) on X.