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☆ Elon Musk may already be overstaying his welcome in Trump’s orbit
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-13 | by ( Dasha Burns | David Ingram | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

In a statement, Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said, "Elon Musk and President Trump are great friends and brilliant leaders working together to Make America Great Again. Elon Musk is a once in a generation business leader and our federal bureaucracy will certainly benefit from his ideas and efficiency." An adviser to Trump said that Elon Musk would join Trump in a meeting Wednesday with Republican lawmakers ahead of leadership elections. In posts on X in the past week, Musk has pushed various policy ideas including deporting immigrants and slashing government spending. On Sunday, one of Trump's grandchildren, Kai Trump, posted a photo on X of herself with Musk, writing that Musk was "achieving uncle status."

Persons: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Musk, who've, they're, he's, Trump, Vance, Karoline Leavitt, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Elon, pester Trump, Elon doesn't, Cantor Fitzgerald, Howard Lutnick, Kai Trump Organizations: Trump, Tech, SpaceX, Department of Government, America PAC, Mar, Ukrainian, Republican, PAC, West Palm Beach Locations: Butler , Pennsylvania, U.S, Beach , Florida, Pennsylvania, West Palm Beach, Mar, West Palm, Austin , Texas

☆ Almost anything goes on social media — as long as it doesn’t make billionaires feel even a little bit unsafe
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-24 | by ( Allison Morrow | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York CNN —The billionaires who control social media want to be clear about what’s OK to post online and what’s not. For X (formerly Twitter), just about anything goes, including neo-Nazi propaganda, crypto scams and porn (as long as it’s labeled properly). Anyone can do the same thing — Sweeney just made it slightly more convenient. It’s just not clear that Meta cares as much about its users’ privacy and wellbeing as it does about Zuckerberg’s. At a Senate hearing in January, Zuckerberg apologized to families who said their children had been harmed by social media.

Persons: CNN Business ’, it’s, Milton, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Sweeney, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, Taylor Swift, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, “, ” Sweeney, he’s, Sweeney, Taylor Swift’s, Swift, — Sweeney, Clare Duffy, Zuckerberg, …, Gee Organizations: CNN Business, New York CNN, Facebook, Disney, CNN, Elon, Twitter, Meta Locations: New York, Florida, Bluesky, America

☆ Twitter employees monitored Elon Musk's jet-tracking account to see when he'd be in the office
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-20 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Twitter staff also took to watching a social-media account that tracks Musk's planes, according to a new book about the company. Musk's jet travels made Sweeney's jet-tracking account @Elonjet more active than ever. Musk also reached out directly to Sweeney about the jet-tracking account. AdvertisementSince then, the college student has set up an account on the site that posts Musk's flight data with a 24-hour delay. The college student also posts flight data associated with other celebrities, including Taylor Swift and Mark Zuckerberg.

Persons: —, Elon, Musk, Jack Sweeney —, Kurt Wagner, Wagner, Elon Musk, Sweeney, he'd, Lars Moravy, Andrej Karpathy, Parag Agrawal, Agrawal, Vijaya Gadde, Jack Dorsey, Alex Spiro, Dorsey, Taylor Swift, Mark Zuckerberg, Grimes Organizations: Service, Twitter, Bloomberg, Business, SpaceX, Tesla, Gulfstream, Super, University of Central, University of Central Florida Locations: San Francisco, Texas, California, University of Central Florida

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When it comes to dealing with a Florida college student who uses public data and social media to track the private jets of billionaires, politicians and other celebrities, Taylor Swift apparently can't just shake it off. In that message, he emphasized that while he has never intended to cause harm, he also believes strongly in the importance of transparency and public information. “One should reasonably expect that their jet will be tracked, whether or not I’m the one doing it, as it is public information after all,” he wrote. A spokesperson for Swift echoed the legal complaint, saying that “the timing of stalkers” suggests a connection to Sweeney's flight-tracking sites. At one point Sweeney had more than 30 such accounts on Twitter, now known as X after Elon Musk purchased the site for $44 billion in 2022.

Persons: Taylor Swift, Swift's, Jack Sweeney, Venable, Sweeney, ” Sweeney, ”, Swift, Sweeney “, Elon Musk, Musk, tweeting Organizations: FRANCISCO, University of Central, Associated Press, Federal Aviation Administration, Swift, FAA, Twitter, Elon Locations: Florida, University of Central Florida

☆ Taylor Swift threatens legal action against Florida student
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Attorneys for Taylor Swift are threatening legal action against the Florida college student who tracks the private jets of celebrities and public figures, including Swift. Jack Sweeney confirmed to CNN on Tuesday that he received a cease-and-desist letter threatening legal action from attorneys for Swift over the social media accounts he runs that track Swift’s flights. Sweeney is the same person who famously drew ire from billionaire Elon Musk for tracking his jet travels online. Sweeney told CNN over email that he received the letter from Swift’s attorneys after headlines that scrutinized the singer’s carbon footprint. Sweeney also told CNN that he never intended any harm with his actions, noting that he is compiling “public information.”“I actually think Swift has some good songs,” Sweeney added.

Persons: Taylor Swift, Swift, Jack Sweeney, Sweeney, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Musk, ” “, ” Sweeney, “, ” Organizations: CNN, Florida, Washington Post, Twitter, Federal Aviation Administration

☆ Elon Musk says Taylor Swift should be concerned about the college student who tracks celebrity jets
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Taylor Rains | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk weighed in on Taylor Swift's concerns about jet tracking. Musk, who has spoken out against the student who tracks his jet, said Swift should be "concerned." "Taylor Swift is right to be concerned." Taylor Swift is right to be concerned. Sweeney told BI he's never meant any harm to the people whose jets he tracks, but created the accounts because he believes in "transparency and public information."

Persons: Elon Musk, Taylor, Swift, —, Taylor Swift, Jack Sweeney, Sweeney, Musk, Ian Miles Cheong, — Elon, stalkers, Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerburg Organizations: Elon, Service, University of Central Florida, Federation Aviation Administration, FAA

☆ Taylor Swift threatened to sue the college student who tracks her private jet
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-06 | by ( Grace Kay | Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

AdvertisementTaylor Swift has threatened to take legal action against the college student who tracks her private jet and manages social-media accounts that publish its flights. Sweeney told BI that he appreciates Swift's music and has no intention of harming those he tracks. Advertisement"I think the people are interested," Sweeney told BI over text. Swift has faced backlash for her private jet travel, even topping a list of celebrities whose private planes emitted the most carbon in 2022. Swift's spokesperson previously told BI the singer had purchased carbon credits to offset her jet use.

Persons: Jack Sweeney, Taylor Swift, Sweeney, Swift, —, Jack Sweeney —, stalkers, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Tom Cruise, James Slater, Slater, Tree Paine, Swift's, Mark Cuban, Musk Organizations: Service, University of Central Florida, Elon, Washington Post, Business, Post, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Federal Aviation, FAA, BI Locations: Florida

☆ The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet made Forbes' 30 Under 30 list
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jack Sweeney was included on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for consumer technology. AdvertisementJack Sweeney, the college student who made headlines for tracking Elon Musk's private jets, achieved another milestone on Tuesday when he was included on Forbes' 30 Under 30 list. The 21-year-old University of Central Florida student was listed on Forbes' list of entrepreneurs in consumer technology. The college student told BI he plans to continue working on and improving his jet-tracking projects. I’m honored to have made it on the Forbes 30 Under 30 for Consumer Tech.

Persons: Jack Sweeney, Elon Musk, Sweeney, —, Mark Cuban, Taylor Swift, Forbes, It's, kL6RyjGus4, @Jxck_Sweeney, Mark Zuckerberg, Musk Organizations: Forbes, Elon, Service, of Central Florida, Consumer Tech, Twitter

☆ Elon Musk appears to have given up on trying to camouflage his private-jet travels with an FAA program used by Jeff Bezos and Taylor Swift
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( Grace Kay | Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Last year, Elon Musk stopped using an FAA program allowing jet owners to fly incognito, JetSpy said. REUTERS/Aly SongThe FAA launched the PIA program in 2019 and has issued 390 alternate ID codes since the program began, an FAA spokesperson told Insider. Musk used his first alternate ID through the PIA program about a month later. The incognito registration number also doesn't prevent Sweeney from tracking the private jet via ADS-B Exchange, a public flight-tracking database. AdvertisementAdvertisement"The PIA program limits the ability to identify an aircraft in real-time using inexpensive, commercially available receivers," an FAA spokesperson told Insider.

Persons: Elon Musk, JetSpy, Musk, —, hasn't, Jack Sweeney, Sweeney, he's, LADD, it's, Elon, Aly Song, Forbes, Jeff Bezos, Taylor Swift, Christian Renneissen, Collins Organizations: FAA, Service, Twitter, Federal Aviation Administration, PIA, University of Central Florida, Gulfstream, Elon Locations: California, Texas, SpaceX's, Brownsville, Hawthorne, Shanghai, Rome

☆ Elon Musk's dad says he's worried the Tesla CEO might be assassinated following a report about his influence on government decisions
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-04 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Errol Musk told The Sun about his fears that Elon Musk could be assassinated. The world's richest person has previously spoken about his security concerns, such as his private jet being tracked. "It's a hit job, a shadow government-sponsored opening salvo on Elon," the elder Musk told The Sun. Errol also described The New Yorker article as "the artillery-like softening up of the enemy before the actual attack," per The Sun. But Musk's own security concerns were most apparent during the controversy over his private jet being tracked last December.

Persons: Errol Musk, Elon, Elon Musk's, Musk, Vladimir Putin, Errol Organizations: New Yorker, Sun, Pentagon, Yorker, Elon, SpaceX, BBC, Twitter, Journalists Locations: New, Yorker, Ukraine

☆ Private jets can be tracked. Here are all the sneaky ways billionaires can still fly unseen.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sweeney also publicly tracked the personal jets of celebrities like Donald Trump, Taylor Swift, and Mark Zuckerberg. Its easier to hide on a chartered business planeLVMH CEO Bernard Arnault on board his private jet between Beijing and Shanghai. The FAA can make tracking more difficult, but it's not foolproofPuma/Jay Z's jet tracked on ADS-B Exchange with LADD indicator. Basically, this allows private aircraft owners to request the Federal Aviation Administration redact their tail number from public tracking. This means companies that use federal data to track commercial and general aviation flights, like FlightAware and FlightRadar24, will not display LADD-identified planes.

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☆ Elon Musk jet-tracking account moves to Twitter rival Threads
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Chris Isidore | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

And Sweeney continues to tweet under a personal account, using it to announce the move of ElonJets to Threads. The first Threads post on the elonmusksjet account was one announcing that ElonJet had landed on Threads, followed by one asking Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg if the account could stay. But the elonmusksjet account was temporarily blocked, according to a posting on Sweeney’s personal Threads account, which included a screenshot of message he received from Threads telling him the elonmusksjet account was active once again following a requested review. “Sometimes we need to take action to help keep our community safe.”Since then the Threads account has tracked one Musk flight, from Austin to Brownsville, Texas three days ago. Sweeney also operates a separate Threads account called zuckerbergjet, but it has yet to track any flights since it went live on Threads at the same time elonmusksjet did.

Persons: Elon Musk’s, Jack Sweeney —, —, Musk, Sweeney, ElonJet, Mark Zuckerberg, “, ”, elonmusksjet Organizations: New, New York CNN, Meta, Twitter, Facebook Locations: New York, Florida, Austin, Brownsville , Texas

☆ Suspended Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's jet moves to Threads
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

July 8 (Reuters) - Jack Sweeney, the creator of an account tracking Elon Musk's private jet in real time, has moved to Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter-rival Threads after being suspended from Twitter last year. read Sweeney's first post on Thursday from the account handle @elonmusksjet, which had over 21,000 followers as of Saturday morning. ElonJet has tracked the movements of Musk's private jet using data available in the public domain. In December Twitter Inc, owned by Musk, suspended the ElonJet account, with the billionaire threatening legal action against the account's operator after saying his son had been mistakenly followed by a "crazy stalker". Sweeney, Twitter and Meta did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Persons: Jack Sweeney, Elon, Mark Zuckerberg's, ElonJet, Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, Representative Alexandria Ocasio, Sweeney, Meta, Jyoti Narayan, Chizu Organizations: Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter, Twitter, Musk, Democratic U.S, Representative, Thomson Locations: Cortez, Bengaluru

☆ Jack Sweeney, the ElonJet college student who got under Elon Musk's skin, has moved his private jet tracking operation to Meta's Threads
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jack Sweeney, who got suspended on Twitter for tracking Elon Musk's private jet, is now on Threads. He plans to update the @ElonMusksJet Threads account manually until he can get an auto-post function going. Jack Sweeney, the college student who had his Twitter accounts suspended for tracking Elon Musk's private jet, hasn't given up on his plane-tracking operation. Sweeney told Insider that he plans to make posts manually, and hopes Meta will allow auto-posting on Threads down the road. His efforts drew widespread attention, with the suspended Twitter account @ElonJet garnering nearly 500,000 followers.

Persons: Jack Sweeney, Sweeney, Mark Zuckerberg's, ElonJet, Donald Trump, Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian, Musk, I'm, Twitter Organizations: Twitter, Elon, Meta, Sweeney

☆ The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet on Twitter is now monitoring the jet used by Ron DeSantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-20 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet is now doing the same for Ron DeSantis's plane. Jack Sweeney created a new Twitter account that he said will track the governor's state-owned jet. The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet on Twitter has decided to give Florida governor Ron DeSantis the same treatment. Jack Sweeney, a student at the University of Central Florida, has set up a new Twitter account, @DeSantisJet, to track the government-owned jet the politician uses. Sweeney made headlines when Musk offered him $5,000 to take down the Twitter account that tracked his private jet.

☆ Jack Dorsey encouraged the student who tracks Elon Musk's jet to keep posting on Bluesky after his Twitter ban
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-07 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jack Dorsey encouraged the college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet to keep on posting. Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey has doubled down on his explicit and implicit criticism of Elon Musk, encouraging the college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet to keep posting on rival apps Bluesky and Nostr. Dorsey, who has given money to both platforms and sits on Bluesky's board, got into a brief exchange on Bluesky with college student Jack Sweeney Saturday about the jet-tracking account. the college student asked Dorsey. Sweeney created the original @ElonJet account in 2020, using public flight data to monitor the whereabouts the of billionaire's private jet.

☆ Elon Musk's private jet emitted 132 times as much carbon as the average American does in an entire year
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Eliza Relman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Elon Musk travels more by private jet than nearly anyone else in the US. His annual carbon footprint — just from flying private — is 132 times that of the average American. Musk's carbon footprint from his 171 private flights in 2022 was 132 times the size of the average US resident's total annual footprint from all activities, the report found. His private plane burned about 221,358 gallons of jet fuel and emitted about 2,112 metric tons of carbon emissions last year, the report found. It notes that Musk purchased an additional private plane last year — a $78 million Gulfstream G700, the world's largest purpose-built private jet — that's expected to replace his G50ER model.

☆ The student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet said his Facebook page was taken down for 'impersonation'
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet said his Facebook page was taken down on Wednesday. The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet said his Facebook page was taken down Wednesday for "impersonation." In a text message exchange with Insider, Sweeney said he didn't know why the social media company had unpublished his page. The University of Central Florida student shared a screenshot of the notice he was sent, notifying him that his page had been "unpublished" because "Elon Musk's jet goes against our Community Standards on impersonation." Jack Sweeney's Facebook page about Elon Musk's jet was taken down for "impersonation."

☆ The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet says the Twitter CEO 'seems really bothered' by his account
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The college student who tracks Elon Musk's jet said he "seems really bothered" by his account. The college student who runs a Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's private jet said the Tesla CEO "seems really bothered" by the account following comments the billionaire made in his BBC News interview this week. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, doxxing is finding or publishing private information about someone online. Sweeney's account used bots to scrape and post publicly available flight data that people would otherwise be able to find via ADS-B Exchange. When Clayton said that Sweeney was using publicly available information, Musk said: "No, actually it's not true.

☆ The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet says the Tesla CEO only seems to care about tracking planes if it affects him
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The student who tracks Elon Musk's jet said the Tesla CEO only seemed to care about being tracked himself. Jack Sweeney told Insider he reported a tweet that had the live location of several public figures. Sweeney warned the account owner that he'd report the tweet: "If I get banned for posting live, so will others." "Either Twitter moderation is bad at its job or they only care about the live location rule when it's in Musk's interest," he added. "The account tweeted a famous person's live location of their jet but hasn't been taken down – the only difference is it's not Musk."

☆ A 17-year-old Seattle high schooler is tracking more than 150 private jets' emissions
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-18 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Seattle teenager Akash Shendure runs Climate Jets, a website that tracks emissions of private jets. Using Sweeney's Ground Control Registration Database — which was developed to famously track Elon Musk's private jet — Shendure identifies and compiles carbon emissions from the private jets of more than 150 wealthy Americans and their families. Shendure is the latest to publicly keep tabs on the expenditure of private jets, following on the heels of Sweeney, now 20, who recently launched his own public-jet tracking database. Sweeney began tracking Musk's private jet in 2020 and created the Twitter account @ElonJet to share his findings, gaining thousands of followers and even job offers. "I don't mean any harm and that's never the intended purpose of the accounts," Sweeney told Insider in December 2022.

☆ The college student who tracks Elon Musk's private jet is launching his own flight-tracking website
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-07 | by ( Grace Kay | Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Sweeney shares data that tracks private jets of celebrities, including Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Sweeney has used the ADS-B Exchange website to keep tabs on flights since he started tracking private-jet data back in 2020. ADS-B Exchange founder Dan Streufert previously said in a statement that the acquisition would accelerate the site's growth. It was built using the same open-source code that was used to create ADS-B Exchange. Still, the agency acknowledges that these are not a "silver bullet" and can be skirted via ADS-B Exchange.

☆ Student who tracks Elon Musk's jet blasts sale of flight-tracking site he uses to keep tabs on aircraft
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Taylor Rains | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Jet-tracking student Jack Sweeney is calling for people to boycott ADS-B Exchange. Sweeney uses the site to share flight data on celebrities, including Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Aviation data company JetNet said on Wednesday that it bought ADS-B Exchange, a free website that tracked thousands of commercial aircraft around the world. Sweeney uses ADS-B to follow certain aircraft, like those owned by Musk, Donald Trump, and Taylor Swift. He said he's looking for alternatives to ADS-B Exchange, like creating his own version or using another tracking websites, like Open Sky Network and airframe.io.

☆ Elon Musk's private jet made 134 flights in 2022 – with the shortest trip lasting just 6 minutes
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-08 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's private jet made 134 flights in 2022, according to figures compiled by @ElonJet. Musk was likely to have used his private jet to fly to Qatar to attend the soccer World Cup final in December, the data showed. The jet's shortest flight lasted for about six minutes, and the data shows it remained at Long Beach Airport. Sweeney uses bots to scrape and post public flight data that could otherwise be found via aircraft tracking site ADS-B Exchange. The 134 flights produced 1,895 tonnes of CO2, with the operating cost including fuel expenses of just over $1.1 million.

☆ Fact Check-Fabricated Elon Musk tweet about journalists shared online
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-29 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

A screenshot purporting to show a tweet about journalists published by Twitter CEO Elon Musk has misled some social media users online. The image appears to show a tweet sent via Musk’s official Twitter account (@elonmusk) on Dec. 16, 2022, which reads: “You know, in some parts of the world, journalists get murdered for crossing the wrong people. Banning the reporters I don’t like from my own platform feels like a pretty innocuous alternative to me.”Examples of the image shared online can be viewed (here), (here) and (here). A Twitter advanced search did not reveal any such tweet published via Musk’s account (archive.vn/wip/i4v4l). A Google advanced search did not reveal any news report on the supposed tweet (archive.vn/wip/rQ01S).

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