LATEST: Twitter account tracking Elon Musk's private jet reappears after an hourslong suspension.
/Twitter on Wednesday suspended accounts that track the locations of private airplanes, including one that tracked CEO Elon Musk's jet, which was reinstated by evening.that the accounts violated Twitter's"doxxing" rules, meaning they revealed nonpublic personal information.
The Musk-tracking account was created by Jack Sweeney, 20, a Florida college student. Sweeney's personal Twitter account was also suspended Wednesday. Twitter has a policy against sharing nonpublic information about people, but the policy did not say anything about"live" information before Wednesday, when the page was more recently updated, according toTwitter also updated its rules to make linking out to “travel routes, actual physical location, or other identifying information that would reveal a person’s location” a violation of its “private information and media policy.
The Twitter Safety account addressed changes to policy Wednesday evening, noting that it made the decision to ban posts on other people's live locations because of"increased risk of physical harm."
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