Elon Musk announced Wednesday night that he is taking “legal action” against a teenager who suspended the billionaire’s jet-setting Twitter account.
Twitter’s CEO made the announcement after a jet-stalking account run by University of Central Florida freshman Jack Sweeney claimed responsibility for an incident Tuesday in which he followed Musk’s family.
“Lil X’s car was followed by a crazed stalker (who thought it was me) in L.A., who then blocked the car and climbed on the hood.” Musk tweeted, referring to his 2-year-old son X Æ A-12. “Legal action is being taken against Sweeney and the organizations that supported the harm to my family.”
Three hours later Musk shared a video of a person inside a white Hyundai wearing a mask and hood and saying, “Recognize this person or car?” has an inscription. An unidentified person is the alleged stalker, he said.
Los Angeles police told The Post they had no information about the incident.
Musk suspended Sweeney’s account on Wednesday. It was briefly reactivated, allowing the teenager to press Musk to clarify the rules before the account was shut down again on Wednesday.
Musk said that any Twitter account “doxxing the location in real time Everyone’s data will be intercepted as this is a breach of physical security.
After the first suspension, Sweeney told The Post that the move made the tech mogul “a complete hypocrite.”
At least 25 other Twitter accounts following the billionaires’ private jets have since been suspended. The New York Times found.
Users are allowed to post the location of other travelers “with a slight delay” because it doesn’t pose the same security issue. A Thread posted by Twitter Safety indicated that it is not possible to share locations on the same day that the subject travels. However, users can share their addresses.
Last month, Musk called Sweeney’s popular tracking account a “direct security risk” but vowed to allow the university student to continue it in the name of free speech.
A screenshot of the suspended ElonJet Twitter account.
A tweet from Musk about the car followed his son.
A Twitter user is going after Musk for stopping ElonJet.
A Twitter user is supporting Musk’s reason for suspending the account.
One of ElonJet’s tweets announces the sharing of information about Musk’s private jet.
Two days before his suspension, Sweeney claimed his account had been shadow banned. Sweeney said a Twitter employee told the teenager that her account was aggravated by “heavy visibility filtering.”
After Barry Weiss alleged that former Twitter executives unfairly shadowed conservative users who were recently banned in the Twitter Files, Musk said he was developing a software update that would allow users to properly file complaints about whether their accounts were secretly blacklisted.
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