Jack Sweeney, the college student whose Twitter account was suspended this week for tracking Elon Musk’s private jet, said he is unconcerned by Musk’s threat to sue him, at least for now.
The 19-year-old student stated that he had “spoken to a few individuals” about a potential lawsuit launched by the second-richest person in the world, whose net worth is estimated by Forbes to be $175.6 billion.
Sweeney stated that he will be on the lookout for any mail in the interim.
“I believe it’s a bluff, but we’ll have to see,” Sweeney told The Post on Thursday morning from his home. It is difficult to say.
Sweeney told The Post, “We’ll have to see if I receive an official notice from anyone or anything.”
Sweeney, who lambasted Musk as a “complete hypocrite” in an interview with The Post just hours after his @Elonjet account was suspended, stated that he was still processing a recent post by the new Twitter owner threatening legal action against the college student.
Musk took to Twitter late on Wednesday and posted a tweet thread alleging that someone driving a car bearing California license plates was tailing the vehicle carrying his young son.
“Last night, car carrying lil X in LA was followed by crazy stalker (thinking it was me), who later blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood,” Musk tweeted.
Musk then appeared to imply that Sweeney’s flight-tracking Twitter handle may have been to blame, tweeting: “Legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organizations who supported harm to my family.”
In his interview with The Post on Thursday, Sweeney scoffed at the notion that his flight-tracking account could have been used to stalk Musk or his family.
“That’s a car [and not a plane,” Sweeney said. “And that supposed incident would have been 24 hours after the last tweet from my account, which is a big time difference.”
“That’s trying to link something that’s just crazy.”
Sweeney told The Post on Thursday that he thinks Musk may have been retaliating against him for tweeting a screenshot of an internal Slack message that the teen says he obtained from a Twitter employee.
“It’s all a weird sequence of events a week after I released leaked Twitter messages about my account being shadowbanned,” Sweeney said on Thursday.
When asked if he thought Musk was seeking revenge on Sweeney for publicizing the leak, Sweeney told The Post: “To me, it’s weird timing.”
“I don’t know if it’s true or not, but it’s really strange to me,” he said. “We already know that Elon was mad about people sharing leaked messages already and he wanted the employees to sign something that they wouldn’t leak stuff.”
In his Twitter thread late Wednesday, Musk posted a short video clip showing the driver of the car that allegedly tailed his son.
The video shows a man dressed in all black wearing a hooded sweatshirt. The driver’s face is covered by a mask.
“Anyone recognize this person or car?” Musk tweeted.
Los Angeles police told The Post they do not have information on the incident.
Sweeney told The Post that his @Elonjet handle only posts a tweet after a plane has taken off.
“I don’t notify ahead of time before takeoff,” he said.
Sweeney was astonished to discover that Twitter had also suspended his personal account.
This week, tech journalist Zo Schiffer of Platformer reported obtaining a leaked email written by Musk to Twitter employees threatening legal action if they disclose secret material to the media.
“As evidenced by the numerous detailed leaks of secret Twitter information, a few individuals at our company continue to act against the company’s interests and in violation of their NDA,” the Musk email stated.
“This will be stated just once: if you obviously and intentionally break the NDA you signed when you joined, you accept liability to the fullest extent of the law and Twitter will sceek damages immediately.”
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