BREAKING: 2 former Twitter employees and a Saudi national are accused of spying in a plot to provide the Saudi government with information about Twitter users, including critics of the Saudi government.
Ali Alzabarah, 35, of Saudi Arabia, and Ahmad Abouammo, 41, of Seattle were Twitter employees. According to the complaint, between November 2014 and May 2015, Ahmed Almutairi, 30, of Saudi Arabia, and Saudi officials convinced the two men to use their employee credentials to access nonpublic information about the individuals behind certain Twitter accounts.
The accounts included those of a popular journalist with more than 1 million followers and other prominent government critics.
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