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Even by the standards of his brief, tumultuous stretch as owner of Twitter, one he has often seemed to inject with fresh chaos by the hour, Elon Musk’s been busy lately.
Last week, he suspended @elonjet—an account run by 20-year-old Jack Sweeney that tracks publicly available information about the location of Musk’s private jet. After previously promising to not suspend this account, Musk claimed Sweeney had “doxxed” his real-time location, putting his and his family’s lives in danger.
As evidence, Musk tweeted an 11-second video of balaclava-clad man behind the wheel of a car, then showed the car’s California license plate. Musk claims the man followed a car carrying his infant son, then “blocked car from moving & climbed onto hood.” [sic] The video was apparently taken by one of Musk’s security staff. Musk wasn’t in the car, and although he claims his child was, thus far, there’s been no publicly available video evidence to confirm that.