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autotldr t1_j0b2zxq wrote

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)

> Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after being convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia, Reuters and NBC News report.

> After leaving the company in 2015 Abouammo continued to attempt to influence Twitter to verify Saudi accounts or remove posts highlighted by the Saudi government, according to testimony from an FBI agent.

> One Saudi citizen was sentenced to 34 years in prison earlier this year for tweeting in protest of the government, while another was sentenced to 16 years.

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FloppydLover t1_j0b4r5c wrote

Only three and a half years for spying. He definitely gave up some information quid pro quo

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TrialAndAaron t1_j0bbvaf wrote

And now the Saudis are the second biggest owners of Twitter 🥳

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[deleted] t1_j0eckbr wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#940,821)

Go ahead and cite an example of the CIA spying for another country at the expense of the US intelligence apparatus or outside the direction of the administration it was under...

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planetofthemapes15 t1_j0f5r8t wrote

Fascinating.

How much money did Elon take from Saudi Arabia for his Twitter acquisition again?

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