Celebrity jet-tracking accounts disappear from Threads and Instagram

Jack Sweeney, who gained notoriety for his @ElonJet account on X and maintained lots of the suspended accounts, mentioned on Threads that the event is “paying homage to all my accounts getting suspended on Twitter.” The shuttered accounts, which used publicly accessible information to indicate the flight paths of personal jets, initially displayed a message on Monday that learn, “The hyperlink you adopted could also be damaged, or the web page could have been eliminated.”

Meta offered no direct warning or rationalization for the suspensions, in accordance with Sweeney, who says the accounts seem “blacked out with no choices to work together or obtain info.” In an announcement to TechCrunch, nonetheless, an unnamed Meta spokesperson mentioned “Given the chance of bodily hurt to people, and consistent with the unbiased Oversight Board’s advice, we’ve disabled these accounts for violating our privateness coverage.”