Twitter has suspended the account that was tracking the movements of CEO Elon Musk’s private plane, and Musk claimed that he is taking legal action against the account’s owner.
Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old college student and aviation enthusiast, created the @ElonJet account, which provided regular updates on flights of Musk by using publicly available data.
Musk on Thursday said: “legal action is being taken against Sweeney and organisations who supported harm to my family,” arguing it put his son at risk.
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“Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info.”
Even Sweeney’s personal account got suspended from the micro-blogging platform along with the other tracking accounts that he created.
On November 7, Musk claimed that the account was a “personal safety risk” but he will not suspend it as a part of his “commitment to free speech.”
In January, Musk had offered Sweeney $5,000 to remove the Twitter bot tracking the movements of his private plane.
Meanwhile, in February, Musk had blocked Sweeney on the micro-blogging platform. Later, Sweeney said he had created 16 automated Twitter accounts, or bots, similar to @ElonJet to follow jets owned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (@GatesJet), Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban and the rapper Drake.
Musk sells Tesla stock worth $3.5 bn amid Twitter overhaul
Elon Musk has sold over 20 million more Tesla shares worth about $3.5 billion and did not provide any reason for selling more stock in the electric car company.
Since November 2021, Musk has sold more than $39 billion of Tesla shares.
After the fresh share sale, according to a form filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Musk now owns about $66 billion worth of Tesla stock.
In April this year, the new Twitter CEO sold off $8.5 billion worth of Tesla stock while in August, he offloaded another $7 billion shares.
The share sale comes at a time when Tesla investors have raised concerns over Musk’s $44 billion Twitter acquisition, saying his 24/7 involvement with the micro-blogging platform is “detrimental to Tesla,” reports TechCrunch.
Tesla stock has nosedived 60.8 per cent since January this year, and traded at $156.80 after hours on Wednesday.
According to industry analysts, “the fresh stock sell is Musk’s answer to some of the high interest debt
he’s paying on his $44 billion Twitter deal”.
Twitter took on $13 billion in debt as part of that deal, including about $3 billion of unsecured debt on which Twitter pays an interest rate of 11.75 per cent, said the report.
Meanwhile, Musk, who saw his net worth tumble by more than $100 billion in 2022, has been replaced by Bernard Arnault, the chief executive of luxury brand Louis Vuitton’s parent company LVMH, as the world’s richest man.
China’s BYD Auto is now the global market leader, shipping more than 537,000 EV units — an increase of 197 per cent (on-year) — in the third quarter this year, leaving Elon Musk-run Tesla far behind globally.
Musk’s son was followed by a ‘crazy stalker’ on road
Elon Musk on Thursday revealed that his little son, who goes by the name ‘X’, was followed by a “crazy stalker” on the road in Los Angeles.
The alleged stalking episode happened after the new Twitter owner suspended Jack Sweeney’s Twitter account who tracked Musk’s private jet.
“Last night, a car carrying lil X in LA was followed by a crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked the car from moving and climbed onto the hood,” tweeted Musk.
The stalker blocked the car from moving and climbed on the bonnet.
Musk further said that any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation.
“This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info. Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is ok,” Musk informed.
Sweeney, a 19-year-old college student and aviation enthusiast, created the @ElonJet account, which provided regular updates on flights of Musk by using publicly available data.
“Legal action is being taken against Sweeney and organisations who supported harm to my family,” Musk further commented.
On November 7, Musk claimed that the account was a “personal safety risk” but he will not suspend it as a part of his “commitment to free speech”.
In January, Musk had offered Sweeney $5,000 to remove the Twitter bot tracking the movements of his private plane.
Meanwhile, some Musk followers requested him not to take any legal action against Sweeney.
“Elon, he is just a kid. Don’t take legal action against him. I understand you must be angry when the safety of your kid is being put at risk, but still dealing with Greenspan I wouldn’t want anyone else to go through that,” posted Whole Mars Catalog.
