2 Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia
One of the accused accessed more than 6,000 Twitter accounts allegedly looking for information about critics of the Saudi government, according to court documents.
by Richard Gonzales
Nov 06, 2019
2 minutes
Two former employees of Twitter were charged with spying for Saudi Arabia by snooping into thousands of private accounts seeking personal information about critics of the Riyadh government, according to court documents filed Wednesday in San Francisco.
The case represents the first time that federal prosecutor have charged Saudis with deploying agents .
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