Former Twitter employees accused of spying on users for Saudis

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American Military News by George Kelly 11/7/2019

A federal complaint alleges that two former Twitter employees took bribes from a member of the Saudi royal family in exchange for improperly accessing user information to help the family and track critics, with one worker alleged to tell a foreign official that “we will delete evil my brother.”

The former employees, identified as Ali Alzabarah, 35, of Saudi Arabia, and Ahmad Abouammo, 41, of Seattle, were charged with acting as illegal agents of a foreign government, along with a 30-year-old Saudi national identified as Ahmed Almutairi. Abouammo was also charged with destroying, altering or falsifying records in a federal investigation.

The federal complaint describes members of the Saudi royal family and government anonymously, referring to “Royal Family Member-1” and “Foreign Official-1.” It describes initial contacts between Abuammo, a media partnerships manager for the company, and a PR firm representing the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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