Elon Musk has a documented history of posting from fake accounts. Now, a post from his own mother’s profile suggests the practice may extend to real ones.
On May 5, the account belonging to Maye Musk (@mayemusk) replied to a post by Elon Musk saying that his grandmother was a housekeeper in England. The reply read: “Your mom told me she was cleaning toilets in a Liverpool boarding house as a child. When I met her in 1966, she was sewing linings for a furrier in a small windowless room behind the store.”
Except…Maye Musk is Elon’s mother. A reply from her account referring to “your mom” in the third person — and claiming to have met Elon’s mother in 1966 — to point out the obvious, makes no sense. Unless, you know, someone else wrote it.
The content of the post appears to match the biography of Errol Musk, Elon’s father and Maye’s ex-husband. Errol Musk’s mother, Cora Amelia Robinson, was English and from Liverpool — the city named in the post. Errol would have been positioned to meet Maye around 1966, years before their eventual marriage.
Neither Elon Musk nor Maye Musk addressed the post or offered any explanation as of publication. But does this mean Elon also writes at least some of his mother’s posts?
This wouldn’t be the first time the X owner has done something like this. In a March 2024 deposition made public by HuffPost, Musk confirmed he had operated a burner account on X under the handle @ErmnMusk — an account internet sleuths had long believed was Musk roleplaying as his toddler son, X AE A-XII. Musk described the account as a “test account” he had “briefly used.”
Archived posts from the account included one declaring, “I will finally turn 3 on May 4th!” — matching his son’s birthdate. Musk deleted the account in February 2024, the same day a court issued a discovery order in the underlying case.
During that same deposition, Musk acknowledged a second alternate account, referring to it as “baby smoke 9,000” — widely believed to be a court transcription error for @babysmurf9000, another long-suspected burner. Musk had also apparently confirmed that account’s existence during an October 2023 live stream on X.
Unlike the toddler-roleplaying @ErmnMusk, the @babysmurf9000 account posts in a style closely mirroring Musk’s main account — targeting the same critics, amplifying the same narratives, and followed by prominent Musk allies, including venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.
That deposition stemmed from a defamation lawsuit filed by Ben Brody, a 22-year-old Jewish man who alleged Musk falsely linked him to a neo-Nazi brawl in Oregon. Brody was not in the state at the time of the incident.
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