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☆ A Twitter account which tracked Elon Musk's private jet has been suspended, despite Musk saying he wouldn't ban it for 'free speech' reasons
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Sawdah Bhaimiya | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's private jet was suspended from the platform on Wednesday. The account @elonjet has been suspended today with a message on its profile saying: "Twitter suspends accounts that violate the Twitter Rules." The billionaire CEO tweeted in November that he wouldn't remove the account for "free speech" reasons saying: "My commitment to free speech extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk." Elon originally offered Sweeney $5,000 to take down the tracking account saying it's a "security risk" and he doesn't "love the idea of being shot by a nutcase." Musk has claimed to be a "free speech absolutist," and recently published his Twitter Files which aims to expose free speech suppression on the platform prior to his takeover.
☆ Twitter suspends bot account tracking Elon Musk's jet
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
Dec 14 (Reuters) - Twitter Inc suspended a bot account tracking its owner Elon Musk's private jet, the account's operator Jack Sweeney said in a tweet on Wednesday. The Twitter account tracked movements of Musk's private jet using data available in the public domain. Later in the day, Sweeney's Twitter account was also suspended. In previous media interviews, Sweeney said he turned down a $5,000 offer from Musk in 2021 to shut down the bot account. Separately, Twitter accounts tracking the jets of billionaire tech entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates have also been suspended.
☆ Twitter suspends account dedicated to tracking Elon Musk's private jet
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Ashley Capoot | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Sweeney said in a tweet Wednesday afternoon that his account dedicated to tracking employee jets at Musk's company SpaceX was also suspended. "Well it appears @ElonJet is suspended," Sweeney tweeted Wednesday . The account, @ElonJet , was run by Florida college student Jack Sweeney and had amassed more than half a million followers. Twitter has suspended the account dedicated to tracking the location of billionaire Elon Musk's private jet . Sweeney's Instagram account dedicated to tracking Musk still appears to be active.
☆ Twitter suspends account that tracked Elon Musk's private jet, despite billionaire's 'free speech' pledge
  + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Donie O'Sullivan | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
The move comes after Musk has reinstated previous Twitter rule-breakers and stopped enforcing the platform’s policies prohibiting Covid-19 misinformation. Sweeney woke up Wednesday morning to a message from Twitter informing him @ElonJet had been permanently suspended. Later in the day his personal account and other jet-tracking accounts he ran were also shut down by the company. According to screenshots Sweeney shared with CNN, Musk reached out to him last December through a Twitter private message asking, “Can you take this down? “Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation.
☆ The Twitter account that tracks Elon Musk's private jet has been shadowbanned, its owner says
  + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
The Twitter user that tracks Elon Musk's private jet says the account has been shadowbanned. Jack Sweeney, the person behind the jet tracking account, ElonJet, took to Twitter on Sunday to accuse the social media platform of suppressing the automated account. Some users had already claimed that they couldn't search or tag the jet tracking account through suggested usernames. Such accounts have become so much of a concern to LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault that he recently sold his private jet and moved to using rental planes to avoid tracking. Musk had previously said he wouldn't ban the Twitter account because of his free-speech commitments.
☆ Trump has refurbished his prized $100 million Boeing 757 private jet as he announces a 2024 presidential run — see inside 'Trump Force One'
  + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: 1 min
Since its revival, Jack Sweeney, who became famous for tracking billionaire planes like Elon Musk's on Twitter, has recorded the 757's recent flights on his Twitter account, "Trump Jets." Trump-branded water bottle on the 757. Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty ImagesSource: Jack Sweeney, The man who tracks Elon Musk's private jet says he would stop if the billionaire took him on a flight and gave him an interview, report says
☆ Elon Musk says he won't ban the Twitter account that tracks his jet due to his commitment to free speech. He previously offered the owner $5,000 to take it down.
  + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Elon Musk said he won't ban the Twitter account that tracks his private jet. Musk previously offered the account owner, Jack Sweeney, $5,000 to take it down. Sweeney thanked Musk and told Insider he'd still be open to discussing a new deal to take it down. Musk previously offered Sweeney $5,000 to take down the account and asked for advice on how to make his jet less trackable, Insider's Isobel Asher Hamilton reported in January. Sweeney told Insider in a phone interview Sunday he was "pleased" Musk addressed his account but wasn't surprised by his decision.
☆ Elon Musk appears to order Tesla and SpaceX stickers for his new $78 million Gulfstream G700 jet
  + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Elon Musk appears to have ordered custom Tesla and SpaceX stickers for his latest private jet. He has reportedly ordered a Gulfstream G700 to replace his G650ER jet. A Gulfstream employee shared a picture of what appears to be the stickers with Jack Sweeney, who runs a Twitter account tracking Musk's jets. Insider could not verify who took the image that Sweeney shared with Insider. The Gulfstream G700 costs close to $80 million.
☆ It looks like Elon Musk started using a new program that blocks jet tracking after the man who follows his plane wouldn't take his Twitter account down
  + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Grace Kay | Taylor Rains | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
The program allows aircraft owners to apply for a temporary aircraft registration number that is not currently attached to any other plane — meaning that celebrities like Musk can essentially fly anonymously. The PIA program allows aircraft owners to switch out their registration number every 60 days. The incognito registration number also doesn't prevent Sweeney from tracking the private jet via ADS-B Exchange, a public flight-tracking database. Elon Musk's private jet flight with PIA flag, tracked by Jack Sweeney. Jack Sweeney via ADS-B ExchangeMusk is also on the FAA's free "Limiting Aircraft Data Displayed" program, or LADD list.
☆ Elon Musk and Donald Trump are trying new ways to dodge jet-tracking Twitter accounts — but its not a 'silver bullet'
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Taylor Rains | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Jet-tracker Jack Sweeney rocked the boat when he started posting Elon Musk's private jet flights on Twitter. Celebrities can block their jets on certain websites via a special federal program, but Sweeney says it doesn't help. Louis Vuitton CEO Bernard Arnault is one: He recently sold his private aircraft so "no one can see where I go." The program allows private aircraft owners to block their planes from being tracked by websites like FlightAware and FlightRadar24 because they use FAA data. Elon Musk's private jet flight with PIA flag, tracked by Jack Sweeney.
☆ Mark Zuckerberg's private jet made 28 trips in just 2 months, emitting 15 times more carbon than the average American does in a year, report says
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Pete Syme | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The Meta CEO's private plane made 28 trips in less than two months, flight data shows. In 28 trips between August 20 and October 15, Zuckerberg's plane released more than 253 tons of carbon, data compiled by Fox News showed. By comparison, the average American has an annual carbon footprint of 16 tons, according to environmental non-profit The Nature Conservancy. Sweeney previously declined $5,000 from Elon Musk to stop tracking his private jet. Musician Taylor Swift has also drawn criticism for her frequent use of private jet travel.
☆ Twitterverse vigilance scares LVMH CEO into dumping his private plane
  + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Parija Kavilanz | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +2 min
Renault, 73, the world’s second-richest man with a net worth of over $149 billion, said he has sold his private jet because he was Twitter-shamed over his frequent plane use. “Indeed, with all these stories, the group had a plane and we sold it,” Arnault told an LVMH-owned radio station, on Monday. “It’s not very good that our competitors can know where we are at any moment,” Antoine Arnault told the radio station. Elon Musk tried to pay off a 19-year-old from Florida to stop tracking his private jet use. Jack Sweeney rejected the $5,000 offer from Musk to delete his Twitter account that tracks the Musk’s private jet journeys.
☆ Microsoft's former VP of HR shares the types of employees who are most likely to be laid off
  + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Compassionate Eye Foundation/Martin Barraud/OJO Images Ltd / Getty Images1. Who's most at risk during layoffs? Contract workers: At the highest risk are contract employees, which companies use for this very contingency. They want to remain flexible in case of a downturn, and as such, contract employees are usually the first ones out. Special interest groups representing Big Tech companies oppose possible crypto regulation in California. Cryptocurrency companies may soon be required to get a license to operate in the state, and industry groups representing Amazon, Apple, Meta, and other tech companies wrote to the state assembly opposing the law.
☆ 20-year-old who tracks Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg's private jets says Facebook took down his page because it violates their policy
  + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Jack Sweeney said Facebook shut down his page that tracks Elon Musk's jets. "Really @Facebook," Sweeney tweeted. The billionaire told Sweeney he was concerned for his safety and didn't "love the idea of being shot by a nutcase." Sweeney previously told Insider that he countered Musk's offer, asking for $50,000 instead, but Musk declined. Earlier this year, he told Insider he stopped tracking Mark Cuban's jets on Twitter after the billionaire investor reached out and offered him business advice in exchange.
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