An underground activist group says it will begin publicly releasing personal information about billionaires as part of a phased campaign against what it calls the American oligarchy. Its first announcement is expected to include the locations of Elon Musk, his brother Kimbal Musk and Tesla’s board of directors, along with a map of the investors and suppliers the group says support the company.
A secretive international organization
Two members of the group, who spoke to WIRED on condition of anonymity, said private investigators had spent the past year using nearly every available method to compile documents about billionaires, trillionaires and people the group considers executives.
The members described the organization as an international network of grassroots activists, researchers, journalists and artists. Some members have received major awards during earlier careers in print, television and digital media. For security reasons, many participants work in “silos” and do not know one another’s names.
The group says it has raised more than $1.2 million through its contacts, including donations from “a reassuring number of wealthy traitors” who believe that the extreme concentration of wealth and political power poses an “existential threat.”
In a press release issued Monday, the organization said future releases would include more than 150 home addresses, most of which it claims have not previously been reported. It also plans to publish information from more than 3,500 records involving people with combined wealth of about $1.4 trillion, as well as what it describes as “criminal exploitation and security deficiencies.”
The Capitistas and their capybara symbol
Members call themselves Capitistas, a name modeled on the Zapatistas, the Indigenous rebels of southern Mexico.
The group uses the capybara—an animal known for getting along with many other species—as its avatar and as a covert rival to the Shiba Inu associated with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. The source also refers to it as the “Fuhrer” meme Musk used to brand the project. That meme has since been reclaimed by pro-Ukrainian activists, who post it as a cartoon dog to mock Russian propaganda and raise money for the war.
Doxing enters the political mainstream
In the United States, the term “oligarch” was long used mainly for Russian tycoons who acquired state-run industries after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The term became more prominent in American politics in January 2025, when President Joe Biden warned in his farewell address that “an oligarchy is forming in America.”
Musk is a prominent example of what Biden called “extreme wealth, power, and influence.” Musk spent much of 2025 as an unpaid special government employee and spent more than $700 million on federal elections beginning in 2023—roughly equivalent to 15 million typical online donations.
Meanwhile, doxing has become a favored tactic among political guerrillas and self-described state informants. In March 2025, as protesters gathered outside Tesla dealerships, an anonymous website called DOGEQuest launched and published what it claimed were the addresses of Tesla owners and DOGE staff.
Months later, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official testified that his unit had initiated the effort. More than three-quarters of deportation inquiries came from Canary Mission, a similarly opaque organization with a very different objective: compiling information about pro-Palestinian students and professors.
Source: www.wired.com
