Twitter Bans Account That Tracked Musk’s Private Jet

December 14, 2022 Business, Social Media

Twitter has clipped the wings of the account that actively tracked Elon Musk’s private jet, the owner of the account said Wednesday. The suspension raises questions about Musk’s commitment to free speech on Twitter.

Musk said in early November that his “commitment to free speech” included the account following his plane. Florida college student Jack Sweeney, the owner of the @elonjet account, tweeted Wednesday that “it appears @ElonJet is suspended.”

The account, which has more than 500,000 followers, actively tracks Musk’s location through public flight-tracking data.

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The Twitter account that tracks the movements of Elon Musk’s private jet using publicly available flight data is permanently suspended by Twitter https://t.co/X6R8e1u9X4

— Bloomberg (@business) December 14, 2022