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

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

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 !).

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.

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,

Elon Musk has reportedly banned journalist Jacqueline Sweet from X for publishing a probe that revealed Adrian Dittmann was a real person living in Fiji.

A journalist who backed up billionaire Elon Musk's denial that he had a secret X.com burner account simply to prop up his own tweets has been suddenly and suspiciously barred by the platform.