Two former Twitter employees and a Saudi Arabian national were charged Nov. 6 with spying on some users of the social media platform that posted criticism of the Saudi Arabian government.
The three men—Ahmad Abouammo, Ali Alzabarah, and Ahmed Almutairi—provided information about the users to Saudi Arabia, according to the criminal complaint. “This information could have been used to identify and locate the Twitter users who published these posts,” the Department of Justice said in a statement.
