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The college student who tracks private jets of Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Taylor Swift says his Meta Threads accounts were suspended
Jack Sweeney said all the Meta jet tracking accounts were suspended in recent days, save for two: one following the jet used by former president Donald Trump and one following the jet used by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
Several Threads accounts showing publicly available data regarding the private jet travel of some of the world’s wealthiest and most famous people have been silenced. The year-old social media platform, owned by Meta, on Monday abruptly suspended an account showing flight paths of the private jet owned by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and cofounder of Meta, along with several other accounts showing similar data for the private jet use of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, and Kylie Jenner. A spokesman for Meta confirmed late Monday night that all of the accounts were removed: “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.” The spokesman pointed to a 2021 decision from the Oversight Board, which Meta operates, covering the “sharing of private residential information.” The advisory decision indeed found that the sharing of private addresses or photos of residences, while they may be publicly accessible, is a violation of privacy.
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