Elon Musk Allegedly Shadow-bans Twitter Account Tracking His Private Jet
- The teenager running the Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s private jet said the account has been banned
- Jack Sweeney stated in a recent Twitter post that the account’s visibility and reach have been limited
- According to him, the account is not showing up in search or other searches on the social media platform
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Jack Sweeney, who runs the Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s jet and other billionaires has said the account has been shadowbanned by the social media platform.
Sweeney said the account was severely restricted by Twitter since Musk took over the platform.
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Account not showing up in searches
The teenager accused the microblogging platform of limiting the automated account.
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In a Twitter thread, Sweeney claimed that an anonymous Twitter employee told him that his ElonJet account’s visibility has been limited and severely restricted to a massive degree internally since December 2.
Sweeney also shared what seems to be an internal Twitter message from Ella Irwin, Twitter’s new head of Trust and Safety which requested that ElonJet be subjected to Heavy Visibility filtering.
According to Business Insider, Sweeney said he suspected for some time that ElonJet was search-banned before he was told by the supposed Twitter employee.
Shadowbanning refers to making a user’s profile and posts difficult to find without alerting the account's owner.
Users claimed that they could not search nor tag the jet-tracking account through suggested usernames.
Elon Musk criticises jet-tracking Twitter account
Musk has been critical of the account and accused it of being a security risk and offered to buy the account.
Sweeney has more than 30 Twitter accounts tracking billionaires’ private jets and publicly sharing the information.
Other billionaires tracked by Sweeney include Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and others.
The world’s second-richest man, Bernard Arnault sad said he sold his private jet and moved to use rented jets to avoid tracking.
Musk stated that he would not ban the Twitter account due to his commitment to free speech.
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Recall that Legit.ng reported that world richest Man, Elon Musk has again shown money speaks as he offered to purchase all of Twitter's shares for $43 billion(N17.8 trillion).
Must was sued on Tuesday, 12 April by former Twitter Inc shareholders who claim they missed out on the recent run-up in its stock price because he waited too long to disclose a 9.2% stake in the social media company.
In response, Musk decided to pay off all shareholders including the founder, Jack Dorsey or he will withdraw his investments.
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