Jack Sweeney, an American, had created a Facebook page to follow Elon Musk’s private jet, as well as that of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta. But the social network didn’t like it that much and he simply decided to ban the account.
Mr. Sweeney said the Facebook email did not provide further details, including why his account was blocked, a decision that caused the bot program it used to track, as well as the jet, to fail. private of Elon Musk on other sites. Sweney said: “I filed an appeal, but I never received an answer. “
Sweeney, a University of Central Florida student, has had his own private jet tracking page of celebrities like Musk and Zuckerberg in the past. Facebook Pages may be removed for posting misleading content, promoting hate speech, or violating the site’s community standards, including “content that could affect personal safety”. This includes “content that can harm people’s safety”.
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Previously, Mr. Sweeney said he did not believe the accounts posed a significant security threat, as the data was already available through public air traffic monitoring sites such as ADS-B Exchange or FlightRadar24. He also claimed to have also posted the data on Twitter via a bot that crawled the site.
Sweeney has no other private aircraft tracking accounts on Facebook. But Instagram, which is also owned by Facebook’s parent company Meta, hasn’t removed the duplicate @elonmusksjet account. By comparison, the Instagram page only has around 11,000 followers, while the @ElonJet Twitter account has nearly half a million followers.
Jack Sweeney has said in the past that he feared the social network would try to block his account, especially when he learned that Elon Musk was planning to buy Twitter. At the time, he said he created backup pages on Facebook and Instagram.
Mr. Sweeney first created the @ElonJet account in June 2020 and made headlines in January of this year after Elon Musk offered to pay him $ 5,000 to close the Twitter account following his travels. The billionaire told Mr. Sweeney that he feared for his safety and didn’t like the idea of being hit by a madman, which is understandable. Sweeney turned down Musk’s offer and asked for $ 50,000, which Musk turned down.
But Elon Musk isn’t the only person Sweeney has persecuted. In May of this year, the student said he spotted Zuckerberg’s new private jet. Previously, the Facebook founder appeared to have replaced the plane or re-registered it, shortly after Sweeney shared his post on Twitter.
Although Sweeney initially turned down Musk’s offer, he said he was not opposed to canceling the account for harassment at the right price. Earlier this year, he said he stopped following billionaire investor Mark Cuban on Twitter after the latter offered to give him trading advice in return.
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