This began as a story with Jackie Sweet, a freelance journalist with history writing for The Intercept, Mother Jones, and so on. We found the initial

The Adrian Dittmann Story

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2025-01-05 10:00:04

This began as a story with Jackie Sweet, a freelance journalist with history writing for The Intercept, Mother Jones, and so on. 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.

Here's the evidence in full, including a significant amount that the Spectator article missed, and how things fell apart from our point of view.

It starts on December 29, when Adrian Dittmann was making a resurgence on X (formerly Twitter) after joining a Space sounding like Elon Musk. He had long been accused of being a Musk alt by folks on all sides of the political spectrum, including by the 'journalists' at InfoWars (who called him "NOT Elon Musk" in headlines and interviewed him multiple times).