Elon Musk was accused on Tuesday ofsecretly running family 'alt' accounts on Xafter a now-deleted reply from his mother, Maye Musk, appeared to describe her in the third person, prompting claims the tech billionaire had forgotten to switch profiles.
The brief but bizarre exchange began when Elon Musk told his 193 million followers on X, 'My grandmother was a housekeeper in England.'
Maye's verified account then replied with a detailed anecdote, but phrased in a way that sounded far more like the voice ofMusk's estranged father, Errol, than that of his mother. The message was swiftly deleted, but not before screenshots circulated widely and a familiar accusation resurfaced: that the world's richest man has been quietly playing ventriloquist with his own family on the platform he owns.
Musk's original post, published on Tuesday, referred to his paternal grandmother, Cora Robinson, who grew up in Liverpool. Shortly afterwards, Maye's account replied: '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.'
Elon Musk forgot to switch accounts and exposed himself pretending to be his own dad talking about his mom from his mom’s account. 😂 So he’s the son, the dad, and the mom. 👪The IQ level of the same billionaire asking humanity to trust him with Mars. 🚀pic.twitter.com/exhphaGD8a
On its face, it read like a simple family memory. But the phrasing immediately triggered confusion. Why would Maye, Elon's mother, recount a story about 'your mom' as if she were someone else entirely.
Within minutes, X users were speculating that Elon Musk had been posting as his parents and had lost track of which account he was using. One user wrote that 'Elon's mom caught posting from the perspective of Elon's dad,' summing up the general bafflement. Another added that 'It doesn't take a rocket scientist to assume Elon is posting on Twitter as both his parents & was on the wrong alt.'
Others treated it as dark comedy rather than a mystery. 'Elon runs both his moms and dads' accounts on Twitter. Pure cinema,' one person joked. Another concluded bluntly: 'Elon forgot which Alt he is on again.' A fourth simply branded the episode 'cringy.'
Canadian media commentator Dean Blundell went further, publishing a detailed critique of the exchange and its implications. In a sharply worded post, he argued that Elon Musk appeared to have used his mother's account to write in his father's voice to back up his own tweet about his grandmother.
'The richest man in the history of the species appears to have been operating his estranged father's voice, from his mother's account, to corroborate his own tweet about his grandmother — and pulled the wrong puppet out of the drawer,' Blundell wrote. 'He is, in essence, the world's worst ventriloquist, and the dummy is his entire family.'
Source: International Business Times UK
