Elon Musk Confirms He Used Burner Account On X To Role-Play As Toddler Son
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Billionaire Elon Musk confirmed in a recent deposition that he used a burner account on X, formerly Twitter, to seemingly role-play as his toddler son.
Musk confirmed that the account, @ErmnMusk, was his in a March 27 deposition for a defamation lawsuit against him. Musk is being sued for falsely suggesting a 22-year-old Jewish man was linked to a neo-Nazi brawl in Oregon last year. The plaintiff, Ben Brody, wasn’t even in the same state when the brawl occurred.
The deposition, made public Monday and first obtained by HuffPost, finally confirmed what many internet sleuths had suspected — an account on X role-playing as Musk’s toddler son was Musk himself.
Although the account is not mentioned by name in the deposition transcript, Monday’s court filing contained an exhibit of the @ErmnMusk account that was shown to Musk during his testimony.
Asked about the account during the deposition by attorney Mark Bankston, who is representing Brody, Musk confirmed it was his but dismissed it as a “test account.”
“No, I would not use this account,” Musk testified. “It was just used for — for testing.”
Musk repeated the claim later in his testimony.
“I briefly used this account as a test account,” he said.
In 2022, Musk used the account while interacting with Michael Saylor, the executive chairman of MicroStrategy and a Bitcoin promoter, and Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.
Musk asked Saylor, “Do you like Japanese girls?” in one post and said the following to Chesky in another: “I wish I was old enough to go to nightclubs. They sound so fun.”
In an April 2023 post on the account, Musk wrote, “I will finally turn 3 on May 4th!” Musk and Grimes’ son, X Æ A-12, was born on May 4, 2020.
In Monday’s court filing, Bankston alleged that Musk deleted the account in February, on the same day as the court’s discovery order. The posts can still be seen across internet archive websites.
A lawyer for Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Read the full story on Musk’s disaster deposition here.
