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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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[-] alphacyberranger@sh.itjust.works 68 points 2 months ago

They can ban that but can't do anything about misinformation, scammers, bots and shit

[-] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago

They don't care to do anything about those

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

That's how you recognize bullshit. If there was a kernel of truth worth protecting the offending posts would be removed.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Officially, "its too hard". Realistically, they don't do shit because those shits bring in money by paying for exposition

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