Last week when Elon Musk banned the ElonJet account, then banned a bunch of reporters for talking about it, and then insisted that they had tweeted out his “assassination coordinates” leading to a crazed stalker to jump on a car with his child in it, some were… skeptical. I wasn’t sure it made sense to weigh in on the details of the “stalker” situation without more info, though it never made sense that a stalker would find the jet tweets particularly useful — especially when flying into an airport as massive as LAX.
That said, reporters Taylor Lorenz and Drew Harwell, both excellent tech reporters who were both suspended from Musk’s Twitter over the last few days, have a more complete story of the stalker, including talking to the guy. And it’s pretty damn clear that it has literally nothing to do with the ElonJet account, which did not dox him, nor help the crazed guy.
A confrontation between a member of Elon Musk’s security team and an alleged stalker that Musk blamed on a Twitter account that tracked his jet took place at a gas station 26 miles from Los Angeles International Airport and 23 hours after the @ElonJet account had last located the jet’s whereabouts.
The guy in question, definitely seems troubled. But there’s little indication he was actually a “stalker.” It even sounds entirely possible that he, in a troubled state, just happened into the same gas station as Elon’s security. Lorenz and Harwell tracked down the car’s owner (probably because Musk, uh, doxed...
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