Elon Musk blocks a Twitter account that embarrassed him

New owner of Twitter, Elon Musk said he wanted to give free rein to freedom of expression on the social network suspended a Twitter account which embarrassed him, Wednesday morning.

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The account of young Jack Sweeney systematically followed the movements of Elon Musk’s private jet, thereby denouncing the pollution caused by the billionaire.

Internal messages obtained by a anonymous Twitter employee explained to me that on “Dec 2 2022 your account @elonjet was visibility limited/restricted to a severe degree internally.”

— Jack Sweeney (@JxckSweeney) December 11, 2022

The 19-year-old began tracing Musk’s Gulfstream in 2020, using public automatic dependent surveillance (ADS-B) data from civil aviation.

Called @ElonJet, the account was automated, and very popular.

The young man had however warned the blow and suspected that Musk was going to censor him.

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The Florida teenager shared a link ensuring his data was backed up on FacebookInstagram et Telegram.