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Elon Musk said that he and his family are being stalked and he has taken action to stop it. The Twitter CEO shared a video of someone stalking his toddler son who he thought was in a car when he boxed it in and got on he hood.
“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,” the Twitter CEO said before talking about an account that has tracked his private jet activities.
“Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood. Legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organizations who supported harm to my family,” he said.
Anyone recognize this person or car? pic.twitter.com/2U0Eyx7iwl
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 15, 2022
Tech Crunch reported.
The Twitter account @ElonJet, which uses publicly available data to track the whereabouts of Elon Musk’s private jet, has been permanently suspended from Twitter.
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Jack Sweeney, the University of Central Florida student who created @ElonJet, also operated similar bots that track private jet activity of tech moguls like Mark Zuckerberg. Yet none of Sweeney’s other accounts have been affected, including an account that tracks the travel of Elon Musk’s brother, Kimbal Musk.
The account has been a sore spot for Musk for a long time. In January, Musk DMed Sweeney on Twitter and offered the student $5,000 to delete @ElonJet, but he turned down the offer.
“Any chance to up that to $50k? It would be great support in college and would possibly allow me to get a car maybe even a Model 3,” Sweeney responded, according to DMs obtained by Protocol at the time.
According to Sweeney, @ElonJet has been under close watch at Twitter HQ. He posted on his personal account that an anonymous Twitter employee told him that his account was visibility limited on December 2. Sweeney also posted a screenshot, allegedly leaked from Twitter’s internal Slack, that appears to show Trust and Safety VP Ella Irwin asking that the team immediately apply high visibility filtering to @ElonJet. TechCrunch emailed Irwin for confirmation of the message’s legitimacy.
Two things people do not normally anticipate hearing in the same sentence are “former President Obama” and “MAGA,” but that is what has happened. This week, a Twitter user shared a video of a speech by Obama, where said he had “gone full MAGA,” and got the attention of Twitter CEO Elon Musk who said that he spoke “wise words.”
In the video, which is from 2019 at an Obama Foundation event, the former president took a swipe at “woke” culture.
“This idea of purity and you’re never compromised and you’re always politically woke and all that stuff, you should get over that quickly,” he said to the audience. “The world is messy. There are ambiguities. People who do really good stuff have flaws.”
“People who you are fighting may love their kids,” the former president said.
“I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgmental as possible about other people.
“If I tweet or I hashtag about how you didn’t do something right or you used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because ‘Man did you see how woke I was? I called you out!’ he said.
“That’s not activism,” Obama said. “That’s not bringing about change. If all you’re doing is casting stones, you are probably not going to get that far,” he said.
Wise words from President Obama
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2022
As for the Twitter CEO, he got the attention of many this week when he went after Dr. Anthony Fauci.
In the tweets, in which he appeared to mock people listing their pronouns on Twitter, he said that his pronouns are “prosecute Fauci.”
My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
That came after a meme he shared that depicted Fauci informing President Joe Biden “Just one more lockdown my king.”
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
Now things get spicy 🌶️
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 11, 2022
He then warned that things were going to “get spicy:” before sharing his pronouns.
