Elon Musk disclosed on Wednesday evening that he is considering “legal action” against the adolescent who ran a now-suspended Twitter account that tracked the billionaire’s airplane trips.
The Twitter CEO made the decision after insinuating that the jet-tracking account controlled by Jack Sweeney, a freshman at the University of Central Florida, was responsible for a stalker incident involving Musk’s family on Tuesday.
“Last night, the car carrying my 2-year-old kid X A-12 in Los Angeles was followed by a psychotic stalker (thinking it was me),” Musk wrote, referring to his son X A-12. “Legal action is being initiated against Sweeney and the groups that supported my family’s destruction.”
Three hours later, Musk posted a video of a man wearing a mask and hood inside a white Hyundai with the comment “Does anyone identify this individual or vehicle?” He asserts that the unnamed individual is the suspected stalker.
Musk terminated Sweeney’s account on Wednesday morning. It was momentarily reopened, allowing the adolescent to question Musk about the regulations before the account was deactivated again Wednesday evening.
Musk stated that any Twitter account that “doxxes the real-time position of anyone would be suspended as it is a violation of physical safety.”
After the initial suspension, Sweeney told The Post that the tech mogul’s actions rendered him a “complete hypocrite.”
The New York Times discovered that at least 25 other Twitter accounts following billionaires’ private jets were suspended as a result.
Users will be permitted to broadcast the positions of other travelers on a “slightly delayed” basis, as it does not pose the same safety risk. A thread published by Twitter Safety stipulated that places cannot be shared on the same day they were visited. However, users are permitted to share their own location.
Musk described Sweeney’s popular tracking account as a “direct safety risk” last month, but he pledged to allow the college student to continue operating it in the spirit of free expression.
Sweeney stated that his account was shadow banned two days prior to his suspension. Sweeney asserted that a Twitter representative informed the adolescent that his account was burdened with “extensive visibility filtering.”
In a recent Twitter Files thread, Bari Weiss alleged that former Twitter executives had unjustly shadow-banned conservative users. In response, Elon Musk stated that he was developing a software update that would inform users if their accounts had been secretly blacklisted so they could properly appeal.
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