Jack Sweeney, who gained notoriety for his @ElonJet account on X and maintained many of the suspended accounts, said on Threads that the development is “reminiscent of all my accounts getting suspended on Twitter.” The shuttered accounts, which used publicly available data to show the flight paths of private jets, initially displayed a message on Monday that read, “The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.”

Meta provided no direct warning or explanation for the suspensions, according to Sweeney, who says the accounts appear “blacked out with no options to interact or receive information.” In a statement to TechCrunch, however, an unnamed Meta spokesperson said “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.”

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    1 month ago

    It’s not even tracking… Tracking is what the FAA does, and makes publicly available. These accounts are just publishing the already-public information.

    Fuck every one of these shitty billionaires. Fly commercial if you don’t want to be tracked publicly.

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      1 month ago

      Obviously the way around this is to make an account that responds to any message containing a plane ID, and another that retweets it.