Musk reached out to 19-year-old college student Jack Sweeney to express concern about a Twitter account he runs called @ElonJet.
Elon Musk offered to pay a tech-savvy teenager $5,000 to shut down an account that kept tabs on his private jet due to concerns about his personal safety.
“Can you take this down? It is a security risk,” Musk wrote to him in a direct message on Twitter dated Nov. 30. Sweeney counteroffered at $50,000, telling Musk the money would be “great support in college and would possibly allow me to get a car maybe even a Model 3,” according to Protocol.Musk said he would consider the offer, but later said it didn’t “feel right” to pay to shut down the account. Eventually, he stopped responding.
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