Activist Group Reportedly Preparing to Dox Elon Musk

A group of activists has a message for Elon Musk: 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. 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. 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.” The tactic that the group is taking is pretty obviously a form of doxing, which the group does not seem to have any sort of moral quandaries about. According to Wired, the group operates with a sort of slogan that is a modified version of a quote from labor organizer Utah Phillips: “Democracy is not dying, it’s being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” And while the group has picked Musk as its first target for forced transparency, 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). 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. The group did not specifically name names on who will be next, but Wired noted that its targets are those who have profited off of the military-industrial complex, prison-industrial complex, and the growing surveillance state. The goal of the group isn’t necessarily to put these people in harm’s way, though the targets of the doxing efforts will certainly cite personal safety when they object to the spread of the information, but instead to make them a bit less comfortable and let them know that people are watching. In fact, the group argued to Wired that it hopes that by doxing these members of the oligarchic class, they might de-escalate first before societal discord gets any worse.