But what could possibly push Taylor Swift and Elon Musk to want the skin of a simple student on the Internet?
While everything seems to oppose them, the singer Taylor Swift and entrepreneur Elon Musk seem to agree on a specific motivation: to bring down an Internet user named Jack Sweeney. In fact, for several weeks now, the two personalities have seemed to want at all costs to close the accounts of this Internet user who could be described as “ordinary”, even if it means going to court. According to the Washington Post, Taylor Swift’s lawyer recently sent a letter of appeal to Jack Sweeney, arguing that his operations “cause direct and irreparable damage, both physical and emotional” to the star. In the letter addressed to Sweeney, he is ordered to stop all pursuing and harassing behavior under penalty of receiving legal action from the celebrities concerned.
The young man in his twenties, still a student in Florida, also provoked the ire of Elon Musk. Jack Sweeney’s account (@Jxck_Sweeney) was once banned from Twitter, having become “X” since Musk’s billion-dollar takeover. The boss of Tesla and SpaceX even recently gave his support to Taylor Swift, saying in early February that Jack Sweeney “is a horrible person” and that “Taylor Swift is right to be worried.”
Why so much hatred? Maybe because the young man is not that unknown on the internet. The latter has specialized in a very specific and rather incongruous field: tracing private plane flights on the Web to provide precise data on their movements. Like the @laviondebernard account in France, which recently hit the headlines by highlighting the movements of billionaire Bernard Arnault on Instagram, Jack Sweeney has developed a robot capable of tracking the private jets of Russian oligarchs, but also those of Musk and Swift. Enough to observe that the latter regularly make ridiculously short journeys aboard their jets, with totally disproportionate pollution per kilometer.
Questioned on the subject, Jack Sweeney has already announced that his publications on social networks had the sole purpose of warning about the ultra-polluting activities of billionaires. And he seems calm, even when two personalities as rich and influential as Taylor Swift and Elon Musk are on his heels: in fact, there is no guarantee that a complaint could result in his activities.
All information concerning private jet flights is accessible to the general public, and Jack Sweeney only centralizes it on his platforms and social networks. The activist continues to post today on multiple platforms such as Threads, Facebook or Instagram.