Twitter Suspends Bot Account Tracking Elon Musk’s Private Jet

Social media platform Twitter suspended a bot account monitoring its proprietor Elon Musk’s non-public jet, the account’s operator Jack Sweeney stated on Wednesday.

The account tracked actions of Musk’s non-public jet utilizing knowledge within the public area and places out alerts.

Musk stated in a tweet in November that his dedication to free speech “extends even to not banning the account following my plane, even though that is a direct personal safety risk”.

Sweeney, a 20-year-old University of Central Florida scholar, tweeted On Saturday that Ella Irwin, Twitter’s Vice President of belief and security, requested the account be filtered and fewer seen to customers.

Twitter and Sweeney didn’t instantly reply to Reuters’ requests for remark.

In media interviews, Sweeney has stated that he turned down a $5,000 provide from the Tesla chief govt officer in 2021 to close down his bot account.

Sweeney additionally operates related bot accounts monitoring Musk’s jet on different platforms — Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram and Telegram.

Meanwhile, Twitter has undergone a number of modifications ever for the reason that billionaire took over the cost of the social media platform. This week, Musk disbanded a key advisory group, the Trust and Safety Council, made up of dozens of unbiased civil, human rights and different organisations. The firm shaped the council in 2016 to handle hate speech, harassment, baby exploitation, suicide, self-harm and different issues on the platform.

On the opposite hand, Musk has been making an attempt to show by giving chosen journalists entry to a few of the firm’s inner communications dubbed “The Twitter Files” that officers from the earlier management workforce allegedly suppressed right-wing voices.

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