Saudi Arabia Accused of Using Twitter Employees To Spy on Users in America

Saudi Arabia reportedly ‘kidnapped, tortured and handed harsh jail sentences to anonymous critics of the regime.’

AP/Jed Jacobsohn, file
The Twitter headquarters at San Francisco, April 25, 2022. AP/Jed Jacobsohn, file

A former Twitter employee has been convicted of failing to register as an agent for Saudi Arabia and other charges after gaining access to private data on users critical of the kingdom’s government in a spy case spanning from Silicon Valley to the Middle East.

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