WASHINGTON: Two former employees of Twitter Inc and a third man from Saudi Arabia face U.S. charges of spying for the kingdom by digging up private user data and giving it to Saudi officials in exchange for payment, according to a complaint filed on Wednesday.
"This information could have been used to identify and locate the Twitter users who published these posts," the Justice Department said in a statement. Almutairi, for his part, is accused of acting as a go-between for the Saudi government and the Twitter employees.Abouammo was arrested in Seattle, Washington while the other two are in Saudi Arabia, the department said.
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