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.

Musk has also been caught using alt accounts before. In 2023, Musk posted a screenshot of an X account that showed one of his burner accounts. Journalists tracked down the account which used an avatar of Musk’s son and, like Dittmann, would often rush to the defense of Musk. That alt has since been suspended.

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.

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,

X has restricted the account of journalist Jacqueline Sweet after she reported in The Spectator that X owner Elon Musk is not Adrian Dittmann, a pro-Musk user who has been rumored to be the world's richest man's secret account.