Elon Musk Offered Teen $5K to Stop Tracking His Jet on Twitter
Tesla founder Elon Musk offered to pay a tech-savvy teenager $5,000 to shut down an account that kept tabs on his private jet due to concerns about his personal safety.
The billionaire reached out to the 19-year-old college student, Jack Sweeney, last November to express concern about a Twitter account he runs called @ElonJet, which provides regular updates on flights of well-known figures by using publicly available data, according to direct messages reviewed by the Post and first reported by Protocol.
“Can you take this down? It is a security risk,” Musk wrote to him in a direct message on Twitter dated Nov. 30.
The pair exchanged several more messages, with Musk pressing for details on how Sweeney set up the bots and what he earned by operating them. Eventually, Musk offered $5,000 to delete the account. . .
Sweeney counteroffered at $50,000, telling Musk the money would be “great support in college and would possibly allow me to get a car maybe even a Model 3,” according to Protocol. (Read more from “Elon Musk Offered Teen $5k to Stop Tracking His Jet on Twitter” HERE)
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