Twitter on Wednesday suspended an account that used publicly available flight data to track Elon Musk's private jet, despite a pledge by the social media platform's new owner to keep it up because of his free speech principles.
Then, hours later, Musk brought back the jet-tracking account after imposing a new condition on all of Twitter's users: no more sharing of anyone's current location.
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