Some of President Donald Trump's associates — such as the world's richest man Elon Musk, who has threatened to imprison and otherwise worked to censor his critics — are now being threatened with having their personal addresses outed by a group of activists.
"A group of activists has a message for Elon Musk," reported Gizmodo's AJ Dellinger on Monday. "We know where you live. According to a report from Wired, a secretive collective going by Capytistas (a riff on the Indigenous insurgents of southern Mexico who go by Zapatistas) is planning to release the home addresses of several extremely wealthy individuals, including the world’s current richest person."
Dellinger added, "The group, which claims to have secured more than $1 million in funding for its project to out the wealthiest people in the world and their properties, intends to share the home addresses of more than 150 locations that are allegedly owned by members of the 1% class. Their first release primarily focuses on Musk and the Musk-adjacent, and will supposedly out the locations of not just Elon’s home, but his brother Kimbal and several members of the Tesla board of directors."
The journalist continued, "Per Wired, which reviewed a copy of the Capytistas’ dossier that it will release on Musk, the group has apparently amassed at least 32 addresses tied to Musk and company, most of which seem to have not been previously publicly reported. The group also claims that the first data dump will include more than 3,500 records that may show, in their estimation, “criminal exploits and security lapses.”"
Although the group is touting what they've learned about Musk, he is apparently not their primary target.
"He is apparently not one of the people the group has spent the most time collecting information on—he’s just a handy conduit for getting attention (and hey, mission accomplished there)," Dellinger wrote. "Instead, the group hopes that doxing Musk will help to pull in some eyeballs so they can out some of their preferred targets. Of course, don’t expect this information to last long on Musk’s own platform, given that he previously banned a Twitter account that tracked his plane on the grounds of it violating his personal safety."
Musk has become a particularly controversial figure in the Trump era, with many arguing that the SpaceX and Tesla executive has too much power in modern America.
“Musk’s decision to change the course of a war with ‘a seeming flick of a switch,’ taking it upon himself, with or without the complicity of White House officials, to reverse the foreign policy of the United States of America for the benefit of Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, is a stunning assumption of power reminiscent of Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold’s weakening of the Americans’ defenses and draining of supplies at the strategic fort at West Point to enable the British to capture it before he was discovered and defected,” scholar Heather Cox Richardson wrote in October.
