Why Twitter is caught up in a Saudi spying scandal

Two former employees are accused of working with Riyadh to harvest personal data from critics of the kingdom’s regime

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The government of Saudi Arabia recruited two Twitter employees to gather the personal account information of some of their political opponents, US federal prosecutors have alleged.

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