Taylor Swift has threatened authorized motion in opposition to Florida undergraduate pupil Jack Sweeney, who for years has run social media accounts monitoring the personal jet-setting of a number of the world’s most wealthy and well-known individuals.

Sweeney, 21, mentioned he obtained a cease-and-desist letter from Swift’s authorized staff in December 2023 that accused him of “stalking and harassing conduct” to do along with his chronicling of Swift’s travels on her personal jet, the Washington Put up first reported on Tuesday.

Sweeney’s accounts use publicly accessible info from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and worldwide aviation lovers to publish details about celebrity-owned jets. The College of Central Florida pupil doesn’t say who’s travelling on the plane he tracks. Sweeney additionally doesn’t observe flights reside and waits in the future to publish particulars on-line.

Nonetheless, Swift, 34, has insisted by her legal professionals that Sweeney’s social media exercise has contributed to her “fixed state of worry for her private security” and has created a “life-or-death matter” for the singer.

She claimed to have skilled “direct and irreparable hurt, in addition to emotional and bodily misery” over the monitoring of her personal jet utilization.

Certainly, Swift has had many alleged stalkers — a person in New York was just lately charged with harassment and stalking after he was arrested exterior Swift’s Manhattan townhouse in January.

In an try to focus on the stakes for Swift, the singer’s lawyer, Katie Wright Morrone, advised the Washington Put up that the timing of the alleged stalker’s arrival exterior Swift’s Manhattan dwelling “suggests a connection” to Sweeney’s flight monitoring.

“His posts inform you precisely when and the place she can be,” the spokesperson mentioned.

Swift’s lawyer mentioned they might “don’t have any alternative however to pursue any and all authorized treatments” if Sweeney doesn’t cease monitoring her flights.

Morrone speculated about whether or not Sweeney’s flight log monitoring was “a sport” or “an avenue that you simply hope will earn you wealth or fame.” Sweeney, nonetheless, has lengthy since mentioned his accounts are an try to carry the richest individuals on the planet accountable for his or her carbon footprints.

“This info is already on the market,” Sweeney advised the Washington Put up. “Her staff thinks they will management the world.”

Jack Sweeney vs. Elon Musk

Swift will not be the one celeb to have Unhealthy Blood with Sweeney. His jet-tracking endeavours have included the likes of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian and numerous Russian oligarchs.

In 2022, Musk tried to silence Sweeney and deleted a number of of his accounts, together with his private account, from X (previously Twitter).

Amid the purge, X up to date its media and personal info coverage. It’s now forbidden to share “reside location info” and “different individuals’s personal info with out their categorical authorization and permission” on X. (Because the deletion, Sweeney has created accounts to publish about celeb flights with a 24-hour delay.)

Musk accused Sweeney of sharing “assassination coordinates” with the web.

On Tuesday, Musk voiced his assist for Swift’s cease-and-desist in opposition to Sweeney.

“Sweeney is an terrible human being. Taylor Swift is true to be involved,” Musk, 52, wrote on X.

A number of of Sweeney’s social media accounts that tracked flight logs, together with @ElonJet, have been banned from X and Fb over insistences that his posts broke the platform’s privateness guidelines.

Regardless, Sweeney’s polarizing on-line efforts earned him a spot on the Forbes 30 below 30 record for 2024.

Are personal jets dangerous for the surroundings?

Plane are identified to supply greenhouse gases, specifically carbon dioxide (CO2), which contributes to world warming. Although personal jets are inbuilt a number of totally different fashions, they’re additionally identified to usually produce a better fee of emissions per passenger than business flights.

Usually in his posts, Sweeney will embody the price of the gasoline and the alleged emission charges for every flight taken by the high-profile particular person he’s monitoring.

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On his web page that displays Trump’s personal jets, Sweeney claimed a latest (although undated) two-hour flight from Washington to West Palm Seashore, Fla., used almost 12,440 kilos of jet gasoline and produced 20 tons of CO2 emissions.

Can Taylor Swift make it to the Tremendous Bowl?

Swift’s personal jet, which is owned and operated by her firm Firefly Leisure, has been within the information just lately for causes past her carbon footprint.

With Swift at present in Tokyo, Japan for her Eras Tour live shows, keen Swifties are already buzzing about whether or not the singer will have the ability to attend the Tremendous Bowl in Las Vegas on Sunday, the place her boyfriend Travis Kelce is taking part in for the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs.

Swift’s remaining Tokyo live performance is in the future earlier than the Tremendous Bowl. Even the Japanese Embassy issued a press release about Swift’s journey dilemma and guaranteed that the singer would have the ability to make the Tremendous Bowl if she departed the nation within the night after her present.

The 12-hour flight, if she attends the much-anticipated match, would possible be made on Swift’s personal jet.

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