That Elon Musk ‘adrian Dittmann’ Screenshot Is Almost Certainly Fake

A screenshot that seems to propose billionaire Elon Musk is cosplaying superfan “Adrian Dittmann” — showing X narration permissions beyond that of an mean personification — is almost surely fake, a guidelines astatine X tells The Verge.

The source, who claims nary knowledge of Dittmann’s identity, says an image posted to 4chan’s /pol/ committee doesn’t bespeak an existent interface disposable to group who activity for X. The screenshot was posted by a personification who identifies themselves arsenic Adrian Dittmann, showing a position from Musk’s X page. In that screenshot, nan X interface includes non-standard links to an “Admin Portal” and a “Bans” page, hinting that nan personification has emblematic privileges connected nan site. But nan guidelines says neither of these options beryllium for X labour logged into their accounts. In fact, X labour would spot nan aforesaid interface arsenic different users, pinch nan imaginable objection of caller features presently being trialed for wide release.

This suggests that different elements of nan screenshot, for illustration an analytics nexus that only appears for nan writer of a post, were too deliberate fabrications, seeded arsenic hints that Musk is secretly Dittmann. The hints were picked up overnight, wherever they dispersed connected societal media alongside different posts made by nan 4chan personification — mostly ones lauding Musk and defending his X policies amid infighting pinch different conservatives complete immigration.

It’s not clear who posted nan screenshots. “Adrian Dittmann” is simply a longtime X user, and his Musk fandom and vocal similarities personification led to long-standing rumors that he’s secretly nary different than Musk himself. (Musk has cosplayed his boy connected nan site, truthful it’s not that far-fetched an assertion.) User Mag’s Taylor Lorenz has noted that Dittmann benefits tremendously from nan speculation that they’re Musk, and it’s imaginable nan doctored screenshots are Dittmann leaning into that. The 4chan posts could too beryllium from an unrelated impersonator, though, playing up nan thought of Musk arsenic a hopeless forum poster. (I conjecture we can’t norm retired that Musk, impersonating Dittmann, added clone elements to an existent screenshot of his X account? But I’m ranking that mentation debased connected nan list.)

None of this conclusively disproves a nexus betwixt Musk and Dittmann, of course. But if Musk isn’t spending his precious free hours connected a sockpuppet account, that gives him overmuch clip for cozying up to President-elect Donald Trump astatine Mar-a-Lago, attempting to plaything Germany’s upcoming predetermination successful favour of nan far-right AfD party, and playing Diablo IV.