Jack Sweeney, who follows the private jet flights of celebrities such as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, announced that Facebook moderators have closed their page. The young American shared a screenshot of the statement sent to him by the social media platform on his Twitter account.
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Sweeney announced that the page where he shared the flight data of Elon Musk’s private jet was “unpublished on the grounds that it violated the terms of Facebook Pages”. He also stated that he objected to the issue but received no response from the other party.
In a statement to the Business Insider website, Jack noted that Facebook did not specify what exactly it violated. As a result, the bot that collects flight information also stopped working on other sites where Sweeney shared information.
Flight information is already public
Facebook pages can be closed for violating the site’s Community Standards, including for misleading content, propaganda, hate speech, or content that “may contribute to the risk of harming individuals’ physical safety.”
According to Sweeney, the information he makes public does not pose a threat to anyone’s safety, as it is publicly available on private websites such as the ADS-B Exchange, which displays all registered flights. Anyone who wishes can use it. Sweeney’s bot was only collecting data and posting it on certain social networks.
It also shares the flights of Russian oligarchs
For example, he has an account on Twitter called @ElonJet, where around 500,000 followers can find out where and when Elon Musk flies. There are also @PutinJet and @RUOligarchJets accounts that allow you to follow the flights of Russian oligarchs such as Abramovich, Deripaska and Blavatnik as well as Putin.
Asks Elon Musk for $50,000
Although Sweeney opened his @ElonJet account in June 2020, he first made headlines in January after Musk offered to pay him $5,000 to close his Twitter account. The famous billionaire told Sweeney that he was worried about his safety and that he “didn’t like the idea of being shot by a psychopath.” Sweeney asked for $50,000 in return, but Musk refused to pay it.
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