Twitter permanently bans @ElonJet, a bot sharing public data about Elon Musk’s jet, its creator, and ~30 of his accounts; Musk had said he would not ban the bot (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Twitter permanently bans @ElonJet, a bot sharing public data about Elon Musk’s jet, its creator, and ~30 of his accounts; Musk had said he would not ban the bot  —  Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …

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