| Al-Ahmed is the founder of the Gulf States Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC | "The criminal complaint unsealed today alleges that Saudi agents mined Twitter's internal systems for personal information about known Saudi critics and thousands of other Twitter users," said David Anderson, U |
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| The charged two former workers and a Saudi intermediary with "acting as illegal agents of Saudi Arabia" | Two of al-Jabri's children were kidnapped in Riyadh earlier this year, and have not been seen since |
The arrests are the result of a multi-year investigation led by the FBI's San Francisco Field Office.
19| His assertions are rarely proven false, so much so that some suspect him of belonging to the royal family | Lawsuits [ ] 's account was one of those breached |
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| That system, according to insiders who have used it, retains information such as email addresses, phone numbers and the latest log-in time — personal information usable to track a user in real life | The group was tasked with creating thousands of fake Twitter accounts in which they posed as young Saudis and posted messages showing support for the future crown prince |
Email addresses, phone numbers, internet IP addresses, dates of birth and a history of all the users' activity of Saudi dissidents, opponents and others, were among the stolen materials.
| Twitter promoted Alzabarah a few months down the line | 1 percent of the total global views in the second half of 2020, the first time the platform has released such data |
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Faisal Al Sudairi, the Saudi consul general in Los Angeles.
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