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I had never heard of this Adrian Dittmann business. I did a bit of searching and there is also this, from the conservative publication The Spectator, arguing that Dittmann is a real person:
https://thespectator.com/topic/real-adrian-dittmann-not-elon-musk-x-account-fiji/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hany-farid-40a97935_im-fielding-questions-about-the-identity-activity-7280260035757154304-TBnE
Here a professional does some research on audio clips from both Dittmann and Musk and comes to the conclusion that while it's not impossible they are different people, it's indeed highly improbable.
I've read The Spectator story and I'm unconvinced. Why does Dittmann seem to know a lot of about the companies internals or know Musk's mind? Why do they have eerily similar opinions on nearly everything?
Musk is seriously unhinged, and I don't think he actually spends a moment of time working as much as he likes to pretend he does. He even got outed for faking his POE ranking in the last few days. (This was after previously being kicked for "cheating" and then denying he cheated) He pays people to make him seem like a more "Epic Gamer" than he actually is. I don't believe he's above making fake accounts mostly because he's literally been caught doing it before and having to admit it in a deposition. He was caught posting under an account made to look like his own son, was posting weird babytalk and weird sex talk.
Coupled with this photo and rumors that he was kicked out of the Bay Area Babyfur community in 2009 is all I need to know personally.
The idea that he couldn't be Adrian Dittmann is honestly sillier than him being Adrian Dittmann, in my opinion. Further, nothing in the article is solid proof of much of anything, especially because Musk can unilaterally take over anyone's account because he owns the site. Even if the account at one point was owned by a real Adrian Dittmann, the question is whether or not that person still really has control over the account.
Recall that Musk stole the X account from a longtime user. He is obviously not above stealing user accounts if it benefits him.
Finally, his laugh man. You can fake a lot about another person, but a laugh is hard hard hard hard to mimic. Why is Dittmann's laugh a fucking exact replica of Musks? Even if their voices sounded similar, the likelihood of them both laughing the exact same way is even more unusual.
Just a heads up, the author of this article worked with maia crimew on it and then poorly presented the evidence in a right-wing paper with no credit. Here’s maia’s post with more solid evidence:
https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/adrian-dittmann/