Some social media users have accused Elon Musk of posing on X, formerly Twitter, as his defender Adrian Dittmann during the debate about H-1B visas. Newsweek reached out to Dittmann on X and Musk through press teams at X, Tesla and SpaceX by email on Sunday for comment.

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,

The Spectator's Jacqueline Sweet had her account restricted after reporting Musk is not Dittmann, his rumored online alter ego

The real person behind 'Adrian Dittmann' account is a German-born entrepreneur, who lives in Fiji and is the son of a German software engineer.

For years, rumors have swirled that Dittmann’s X account, which gushes over the world’s richest man both in text posts and live chatrooms, was actually just Musk pumping himself up online.

A screenshot that seems to suggest billionaire Elon Musk is cosplaying superfan “Adrian Dittmann” — showing X account permissions beyond that of an ordinary user — is almost certainly fake, a source at X tells The Verge.

The apparent relative lack of information about Mr Dittmann has users wondering if it is a “burner” account, the modern equivalent of Donald Trump calling the press while pretending to be a lawyer called Mr Barron (not to be confused with his lanky son Barron Trump !).

On Wednesday, a 4chan user identifying themself as Adrian Dittmann posted a screenshot of a post from Musk that displayed interface options that suggest he’s not an ordinary user. (4chan doesn’t use formal accounts,

A journalist said Sunday her X account was suspended and links to a recent article of hers were blocked on the platform after she published a piece debunking online theories that an Elon Musk fan account was actually the billionaire himself.