Elon Musk censors the account that tracks his private jet with the tools he denounced in the #TwitterFiles

Elon Musk he would be making a not necessarily ethical use of Twitter’s internal moderation controls and apparently he has applied a censorship action against the account that has made him most uncomfortable in recent years: the one that keeps a timely log of all his jet flights private.

The amount of trouble Elon has gotten into over the past few weeks since taking full control of Twitter has been all too public, largely blowing up the platform’s decades-long trajectory.

This December 12 would even be about to reach another key moment in this situation, with the relaunch of Twitter Blue, under a relatively arbitrary subscription scheme based on cost differences.

In addition to the fact that he would be about to implement another radical change in the social network, increasing the character limit on the platform out of all conceivable proportions.

Anyone would swear that Elon has too many problems to deal with to focus his time and energy on other things. But it seems that there would be one issue in particular: the dissemination of details of where he travels on his private flights.

Elon Musk would have censored the @ElonJet account on Twitter

According to a report from the boys of The Daily BeastJack Sweeney, the developer behind the automated account that records each and every flight of Elon Musk’s private jet, would have been contacted by an internal employee of Twitter.

Said character, who remains anonymous to protect his integrity, would have shared a series of screenshots of internal work chats to Sweeney.

These messages show a request from Ella Irwin, a person from Elon Musk’s close team of trust, requesting that a “visibility filtering” (VF) be applied to the account of @ElonJet:

Visibility Filtering (VF) was recently revealed by Musk himself during the publication of #TwitterFiles, where they “exposed” the internal controls that were applied in the social network before its arrival, as part of a strategy staff to support his free speech stance on Twitter.

A VF would cause Twitter’s own algorithm and engine to considerably decrease the visibility of the selected account. In order not to have to remove it from the platform, but to reduce the scope of each publication, a shadow ban, in the end.

Irwin is set to replace Yoel Roth as the platform’s new head of security soon, and this screenshot would at the very least demonstrate that Musk’s new team would use the moderation and censorship tools at their own discretion, according to their interests.