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The flight information that twitter account was using is publically available and required by law to BE public.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zygg/twitter-bans-elon-mus...

"Sweeney has been using sites such as ADS-B Exchange to track the movements of private jets blogging to celebrities, tech billionaires, and Russian oligarchs for years now. By law, the movement of these plans is publicly available information. “This account has every right to post jet whereabouts, ADS-B data is public, every aircraft in the world is required to have a transponder, Even AF1 (@AirForceTrack) Twitter policy states data found on other sites is allowed to be shared here as well,” the account’s pinned tweet read before it was banned."

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parent TehCorwiz 3 years ago

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