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Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump (www.theverge.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago

I mean... SAM would track them better than any account!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're a bootlicker if you're on threads, simple as

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

God damn... Somebody out doing me on calling this pathological behavior

🫡

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Damn look at these parasites demanding privacy!

Hmmmm

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Given the risk of physical harm to individuals

Their private security details aren't enough?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Those rich fuckers can fly commercial like the rest of us. Upgrade to first and business class and suck it up.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

Not to mention the data is publicly accessible.

[–] [email protected] 386 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The irony of Meta/Facebook - infamous for tracking people online - being upset about jet tracking.

[+] [email protected] -135 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Tracking those jets isn’t the issue. It’s sharing that information publicly. Facebook doesn’t hand out your personal information to others, and if you think they do, then you don’t understand how targeted ads work.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Facebook doesn’t hand out your personal information to others

Huh? How do you think ad targeting works?

[+] [email protected] -26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

An advertiser contacts Facebook and says, 'We’d like to advertise this product to a specific group of people,' and Facebook says, 'Sure, hand us your money and the ad you'd like us to display,' and then targets that ad to the desired audience. At no point does Facebook hand over user data to the advertiser.

For example, if I want to advertise my home renovation services to all the elderly home owners in my city, then what use would it be for me if they just handed me a list of those people? None. They're the advertising platform. It's them who targets those ads.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Except you can add a tracking pixel to the destination website after people click through on the ad, which correlates to people's individual profile. To say that isn't "handing out personal information to others" is sophistry of the highest order.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That information is already public, how do you think he gets it?

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 2 days ago

Rules and laws are only for the peasantry. Your level of freedom is proportional to your wealth, so Meta has a whole lotta Freedom™️

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Fuck corporate social media

https://mastodon.social/@JxckS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Fuck Zuck.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seriously threads and bluesky are false promises, the rest of the fediverse might grow and innovate slowly but it is genuine growth on genuinely community owned platforms.

Bluesky and threads are visions of the past wearing the future's clothes. They are investor backed and fundamentally and irrevocably for profit ventures.

Do not be seduced into wasting your time in stuck in the past, this is a perfect reminder we already know where it will end no matter what their precariously employed devs say.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Thanks followed.

[–] [email protected] 147 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Zuckerberg’s $300 million mega yacht may be tracked here: https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9857511

It is currently in San Diego at Broadway Pier. Which was also confirmed by yesterday’s news of a methed up Florida man being arrested at gun point for sneaking aboard and throwing things off into the water LOL https://youtu.be/L7nnKn1W4Mw

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

And yet: https://mastodon.social/@elonjet is still up :)

Obligatory: https://grndcntrl.net/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Chad using Mastadon is just a cherry

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