Meta bans jet-tracking accounts for Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg
Meta followed Elon Musk's lead, banning jet-tracking accounts run by Jack Sweeney. The accounts posted locations of jets used by Donald Trump and Taylor Swift.
Meta has banned a series of accounts that post location updates on private jets belonging to some of the world’s richest and most powerful people, including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and former President Donald Trump.
Those accounts have been deleted from Threads and Instagram, and corresponding Facebook accounts will be deleted soon, Andy Stone, Meta’s communications director, told NBC News.
The accounts, run by a Florida college student named Jack Sweeney, also track Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Some still exist on other platforms, including Bluesky.
In a Signal conversation with NBC News, Sweeney defended his flight tracker project.
“It has journalistic value, reveals obviously many parts of a CEOs work or what partnerships may occur. Now not only that, but also it brings awareness to the very fact they are flying and the climate side,” he said, referring to the carbon emissions related to jet travel and their connection to climate change.
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