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Orlando Sentinel
Orlando Sentinel
National
Nelly Ontiveros

Elon Musk offers $5,000 to Florida freshman to stop tracking his private jet

ORLANDO, Florida — A University of Central Florida freshman received a $5,000 offer from Elon Musk to take down his Twitter account, which tracks the billionaire’s private jet, according to a report from WKMG.

Jack Sweeney, a 19-year-old freshman at UCF, manages @ElonJet, a Twitter account that uses a bot to track Musk’s private jet.

Sweeney said he created an algorithm that tracks flight data through a plane’s transponder, the report said.

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