The Saudi government recruited two Twitter employees in the U.S. to obtain personal account information of the kingdom's critics, prosecutors say.
FILE - This July 9, 2019, file photo shows a sign outside of the Twitter office building in San Francisco. The Saudi government recruited two Twitter employees to get personal account information of their critics, prosecutors said Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019.
The accounts included those of a popular critic of the government with more than 1 million followers and a news personality. Ahmad Abouammo, who left his job as the media partnership manager for Twitter’s Middle East region in 2015, was also charged with falsifying documents and making false statements to obstruct FBI investigators — offenses that carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison if convicted.
Investigators alleged that a Saudi citizen working as a social media adviser for the Saudi royal family recruited Twitter engineer Ali Alzabarah. The two met in Washington. D.C., around the same time the adviser, Ahmed Almutairi, met with someone named in the complaint as Royal Family Member 1.
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