A journalist said Sunday her X account was suspended and links to a recent article of hers were blocked on the platform after she published a piece debunking online theories that an Elon Musk fan account was actually the billionaire himself.

Jacqueline Sweet, a contributor for the conservative magazine The Spectator World, did a deep dive into long-percolating rumors that Musk was using a burner account under the name Adrian Dittmann to lavish praise on himself.

At some point after he became aware of the story, Musk's X reportedly banned Sweet's account for a month — allegedly for "doxing," according to Sweet — and she claims that links to the Spectator article about Dittman have been restricted across the site.

The short version is that there’s a guy on X who loves to defend Elon Musk and who sounds a lot like him. Not so, says Sweet. “The real-life Dittmann is the son of a German software entrepreneur who has launched several businesses in Fiji,

A Spectator journalist has been blocked on the social media platform X for debunking a theory that Elon Musk is the secret owner of a fawning sock puppet account. Since 2023, rumors have swirled that X user Adrian Dittmann,

Robby Soave and Niall Stanage discuss fake rumor that X account by Adrian Dittmann is Elon Musk. #musk #adriandittman

A weird conspiracy alleging that X owner Elon Musk uses another fake account to laud himself on his social media platform took a strange turn.