The real Adrian Dittmann, Jacqueline Sweet. (The assist: The Adrian Dittmann Story)

The story appeared just as Musk needed it the most. He had spent the week between Christmas and New Years Eve in a narcissistic, (allegedly) drug-fueled meltdown. He targeted Laura Loomer specifically, but went pretty scorched earth on MAGA in general. As Elon, he banned a score of accounts and, as Adrian, he took to Spaces to try and justify it.

Under either persona, however, he wholly resents anyone thinking he should ever have to explain himself, and he could not contain his rage. Tens of thousands of people heard him, and none could doubt that the man talking was Elon Musk. It was quite the spectacle.

And then on January 3, Adrian Dittmann wasn’t able to resist an invitation from a popular streamer (connoreatspants) to learn to play Fortnite. (Kai Trump was visibly disappointed in November when Elon said he didn’t play.) I was not familiar with connor before listening to the stream, and within the first 10 minutes it becomes apparent neither was Elon. He had clearly made the same assumptions about a young, white, male internet streamers that I had when I prepared myself to listen to “boys being boys”. But when Musk threw out his usual line about video games having been corrupted by “wokeness”, and Connor feigned ignorance and got him to explain himself, I realized this was going to be a real interview.

I now maintain that Fortnite Friday w/ Adrian Dittermann deserves a Pulitzer Prize.

Musk’s alter ego had gotten away from him. He’s simply too much of an egomaniac to make an alt that isn’t an egomaniac. This stunningly weird thing he does with alts had spread outside of his tightly controlled X bubble, and the whole pathetic ruse was at risk of a rapid unscheduled disassembly.

The Spectator story was intended to put those rumors to bed.

Once The Spectator story went live, Musk quickly suspended the journalist and 2 people who had contributed to the reporting.

One contributor (‪@crimew.gay‬) had their account reinstated after removing these two posts:

In order for the Dittmann scam to continue working, Musk needs people ‘in the know’ to know it’s him, but he also needs conventional wisdom to say he’s someone else.

Elon Musk is wrong about a lot, but he is spot on in how lazy the media is. He knows because he used that same media very effectively for years to regurgitate what a genius innovator he was. The whole con that he is couldn’t have existed without them.

So maybe not all of them will bite on the Spectator story… but he knows they’ll cover him suspending the journalist and blocking the story. A deliberate use of the Streisand Effect, a la Hunter Biden’s laptop and the NY Post.

There are a few things to note about the story itself.

For starters, the interesting coincidence on the reporter – Jacqueline Sweet. An ‘independent investigative journalist’ whose credits include publication in Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Politico, and The Intercept.

But before any of of her work… when looking up her name in January 2025, there was this full on attack waged by the Internet’s worst woman, Laura Loomer. (These vicious, vulgar attacks on women is sort of Loomer’s thing — Musk would hire her to do similar to Baby Mama Ashley St. Clair in February.)

Per Swiss Hacker f/k/a Tillie Kottmann, the “initial lead’ came from research they began on 12/29/24. They then approached Jacqueline who pitched the story to The Spectator.

“We found the initial lead and presented it to Jackie, but she was ultimately agreed to be our byliner — the actual writer for the story, the sole contributor being credited in the space under the title, and the one being paid for the piece. As such, Jackie got to choose the outlet we pitched to, and we ended up with an article in the US edition of the right-wing Spectator that was arguably poorly presented, cut out graphics and information crucial to the investigation, and crucially did not give credit to us. (The Adrian Dittmann story)

The Spectator was an interesting choice, especially in light of The Spectator’s change of ownership in September 2024.

Right-wing media owner Paul Marshall bought a large stake in Elon Musk’s company Tesla prior to the U.S. presidential election, DeSmog can reveal.

At the same time, Marshall’s outlets were regularly producing content in support of Musk, now a key figure in Donald Trump’s administration who has decimated several government agencies since the new president’s inauguration on 20 January.

The value of the Tesla shares owned by Marshall’s hedge fund, Marshall Wace, increased by more than $500 million in the final three months of 2024.

Earlier in the year, Marshall Wace rapidly increased its stake in Tesla, an electric vehicle company, from 1.2 million shares in June to 3.8 million in September – with the value of its position jumping from $247 million to $1 billion.

A boom in Tesla’s share price following the election of Trump saw Marshall Wace’s position soar to $1.5 billion on 3.6 million shares by the end of December. 

Tesla’s share price has since dipped to its pre-election level, though it’s not yet known whether Marshall Wace sold all or part of its shares prior to this downtrend.

https://www.desmog.com/2025/04/03/hedge-fund-boss-paul-marshall-gb-news-bet-on-elon-musk-tesla-before-donald-trump-election/

All in all, the big scoop on Dittmann, as presented by Maia or as filtered through Jacqueline Sweet – is that Adrian Dittmann, son of Toralf Dittmann, is a real guy living in Fiji, and I maintain that Elon Musk is borrowing his identity. Nothing in either the blog entry or the Spectator story disproves what I can hear with my own ears.

Screenshots showing Adrian in a Fiji time zone are simple enough if Musk uses a separate, Adrian devoted device. None of the cooking videos show the face that belongs to the hands and could be as simple as a voiceover.

After watching and studying the hands for too long, it does seem likely that they do indeed belong to the young German man — either with the gold wedding band he once wore, or without.

The knotty fingers, as seen without the band in more recent videos, do seem like they could be the same hand (pic below from 3/10/2025 Space.)

Paired with this observation from the article – “The floor seen in the cooking Spaces also matches the floor of a home posted by Fiji Adrian Dittmann’s brother on Instagram”, I’ve arrived at the conclusion that the man doing these cooking videos is very likely the blonde man in Fiji.

The voice, however, is Elon Musk.

What I don’t know is the connection between Adrian and Elon, I just know there must be one, and they are working this PsyOp together.