• Former Twitter employee and dual U.S. – Lebanese citizen Ahmad Abouammo has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after a court found him guilty of spying on Twitter users in service of the Saudi royal family, according to an NBC News report.
• According to NBC, Abouammo – who worked in media partnerships for Twitter in the Middle East and other territories – “was part of a scheme to acquire the personal information of users, including phone numbers and birth dates, for a Saudi government agent.”
• Though Abouammo left Twitter in mid-2015, he still used his contacts within the company to verify some Saudi-based accounts and remove posts he’d flagged as “violations” of Twitter’s terms of service.

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