Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

On Wednesday evening the Washington Post reported that two former Twitter employees are being charged with spying for Saudi Arabia. This is the first time federal prosecutors charged the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of using agents in the US, after the employees allegedly accessed the company’s information on dissidents using the platform. This news comes not long after the Middle East Eye published a story claiming a senior Twitter executive with editorial responsibility for covering the Middle East was revealed to be a part time officer in the British Army psychological warfare unit.