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Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses (www.theguardian.com)

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"Lawsuit says network discloses user data at request of Saudi authorities at much higher rate than for US, UK and Canada"

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[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

It centers on the events surrounding the infiltration of the California company by three Saudi agents, two of whom were posing as Twitter employees in 2014 and 2015, which ultimately led to the arrest of al-Sadhan’s brother, Abdulrahman, and the exposure of the identity of thousands of anonymous Twitter users, some of whom were later reportedly detained and tortured as part of the government’s crackdown on dissent.

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