Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Government
November 08 2019
U.S. federal prosecutors have charged two former employees of the social network Twitter with spying for Saudi Arabia, reports NPR News.
Ahmad Abouammo, a former media partnerships manager at Twitter and U.S. citizen, allegedly accessed private information about users without permission. He allegedly received payments worth $300,000 as well as a $20,000 watch from an unnamed Saudi official.
He has been charged with acting as a foreign agent and falsifying records to obstruct a...
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