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Celebrity jet-tracking accounts have vanished from Threads and Instagram

It's a bad week for the creator of @ElonJet.

Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and former US president Donald Trump. Meta provided no direct warning or explanation for the suspensions, according to Sweeney, who says the accounts appear “blacked out with no options to interact or receive information.” In a statement to TechCrunch, however, an unnamed Meta spokesperson said “Given the risk of physical harm to individuals, and in keeping with the independent Oversight Board’s recommendation, we’ve disabled these accounts for violating our privacy policy.” An account tracking Taylor Swift’s private jet was also deactivated earlier after the singer threatened to take legal action against Sweeney in February unless he ceased “stalking and harassing behavior.”

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