Teen who tracks Elon Musk’s $70million private jet reveals secret to finding plane Mark Zuckerberg was ‘trying to hide’
THE teen who tracks Elon Musk’s $70million private jet has revealed his secret that led to the discovery of his latest “jackpot” in Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s aircraft.
Tech-savvy teen Jack Sweeney claims he has bypassed Meta‘s reported $26.8million security expenses on their CEO, revealing to The US Sun how he pinned Zuckerberg’s private jet.
In February, Sweeney, 19, began tracking and sharing updates on what he said was Zuckerberg‘s private jet and created the Twitter profile ZuccJet.
Sweeney told The US Sun that for some time, he was tracking a plane that he believed belonged to Zuckerberg; however, he later learned that the jet was no longer his.
“I tracked what we thought to be his for a while, so it’s nothing new, but then we found out the one we had wasn’t his anymore,” the teen exclusively told The US Sun.
“But recently, some publications came out of him being on it for his recent trip. And checking flight history, it went to Italy when he was in Italy it lines up to be his.”
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Sweeney claims the tech billionaire’s jet is “trying to hide” by being registered in Wyoming as a “trust”.
“No official docs, but it’s registered in WY as a trust, so trying to hide. Came out of him being on a new jet,” the teen said.
The 19-year-old said the Meta head honcho is just one billionaire people have an interest in and joked that his tracking tool is a way of “getting back” at Zuckerberg and Facebook for alleged spying on their users.
“I mean, he’s just one of them [billionaires] that people have interest in. I do think it’s funny, though, that a lot of people are like, ‘Facebook tracks us’ now this teen is getting back at him,” Sweeney told The US Sun.
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MUSK NOT IMPRESSED
The tech-savvy teen made headlights in late January after Protocol reported that Tesla CEO Musk sent Sweeney a DM asking for him to take down his controversial Twitter account Elon Musk’s Jet, branding it a “security risk”.
Musk was not impressed when he found out the teen had developed a Twitter bot to keep track of his private jet‘s movements.
Musk was scared some “nutcase” might shoot out of the skies.
“Can you take this down? It is a security risk,” the tech tycoon apparently pleaded.
Sweeney responded: “Yes I can but it’ll cost you a Model 3 only joking unless?”
After a few messages back and forth, Musk asked how much Sweeney made running the account.
When he revealed it earned him no more than $20 a month, the world’s richest man made a measly offer of $5,000 to delete the account.
The teen pushed for more, demanding an extra zero on the end.
“Any chance to up that to $50k?” he said.
“It would be great support in college and would possibly allow me to get a car maybe even a Model 3.”
Musk hit back that he’d think about it, but Sweeney never heard back from the Space X owner.
SWEENEY’S SPYING DAYS NUMBERED?
After Musk’s groundbreaking Twitter purchase in April, Sweeney told The US Sun that he worried he’d get shut down – but had no regrets about rejecting the billionaire’s initial $5,000 buyout.
When asked how he feels about Musk’s Twitter takeover, the teen told The Sun he’s “a little worried, but not a whole lot considering his free speech comments.”
Before buying the social media platform, Musk said he hoped even his “worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means.”
Sweeney looked at the tech tycoon’s tweet as a sign of hope for his jet tracking account.
“His recent tweet seems to make it seem id stay, but if he considers
@ElonJet a security risk rather than a critic, then I’m probably gone,” the teen tweeted.
However, if he’s eventually kicked out of Twitter, Sweeney said he’ll take his tracking talents to other social media platforms like Discord and will soon be publishing a Telegram channel for Elon Jet.
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“I’ll blow up the story of how he’s pretty much being fake, and his true motive behind the takeover. And ill continue on other platforms,” Sweeney told The US Sun.
Elon Musk’s Jet is one of several accounts run by Sweeney, keeping tabs on high-flyers including Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, using publicly available data of all flights in the air.
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