One cuffed by Feds this week
Two now-ex Twitter employees have been charged with spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia – after they allegedly leaked internal records for accounts linked to critics of the Saudi royal family, including the assassinated journalist Jamal Khashoggi, while working for the social network.
A criminal complaint [PDF] filed in a US district court in California on Wednesday accuses Ali Alzabarah and Ahmad Abouammo of snooping for the Saudi government. Both men worked at Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco from 2013 until 2015.
A third man, Ahmed Almutaiari, was also indicted, accused of acting as an intermediary between the Twitter workers and the Saudi royal family.
The trio were charged with acting as unregistered foreign agents on American soil, and Abouammo was additionally charged with ..
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