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After days of speculation that Adam proprietor Elon Musk was secretly posting underan business relationship 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 frequentlymakes kotow postsabout Musk , and his voice ( as heard on numerous X Spaces ) sounds quite similar .
But a report inThe Spectatorappears to have identify the substantial Dittmann , the son of a German software enterpriser who ’s start multiple companies in Fiji . This Dittmann was included ina Fijian government videoof a recent storage warehouse opening .
Hacker and writermaia arson crimewsubsequently took credit for working with Ryan Fae to track Dittmann down . In a web log post , theyoffered more detailed evidencethat the Dittmann in Fiji is the Dittmann on X — for one affair , the Dittmann in the warehouse picture is likely wearing the same band as one featured in multiple cooking video that Dittmann posted ( and subsequently deleted ) on X.
Crimew write that the Spectator article was not “ very serious ” and that the pair was “ infelicitous with how our employment was used without credit . ”
