{"id":1174538,"date":"2022-08-11T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/ex-twitter-employee-found-guilty-of-acting-as-saudi-arabia-agent\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T15:56:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:56:07","slug":"ex-twitter-employee-found-guilty-of-acting-as-saudi-arabia-agent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/ex-twitter-employee-found-guilty-of-acting-as-saudi-arabia-agent\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Twitter employee found guilty of acting as Saudi Arabia agent\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Los Angeles, Aug. 11,\u202f(dpa\/GNA)\u202f-\u202fA US jury found a former Twitter employee guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia and the ruling royal family, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A jury in California on Tuesday convicted 44-year-old Ahmad Abouammo, a former media partnerships manager for the Middle East\/North Africa region at Twitter, of acting as an unregistered foreign agent, conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering and falsification of records, a DoJ press release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abouammo, a dual US-Lebanese national, was found to have accessed Twitter users\u2019 information and passed it on to Saudi officials in exchange for bribes, beginning as early as 2014.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbouammo acted in secret as an agent of a foreign government targeting dissenting voices,\u201d said Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of the DoJ\u2019s National Security Division.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis verdict shows that the Justice Department will not tolerate any act of transnational repression and will hold accountable those who aid hostile regimes in extending their reach to our shores.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>US Attorney Stephanie Hinds for the Northern District of California said that the US government demonstrated that the 44-year-old \u201cviolated a sacred trust\u201d to keep Twitter users\u2019 private information and instead sold it to a foreign government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abouammo faces up to 10 years in prison for the charge of acting as a foreign agent and 20 years for each of the other counts as well as up to a $250,000 fine for each count.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"d58672002b820e8b442ed817-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, Aug. 11,\u202f(dpa\/GNA)\u202f-\u202fA US jury found a former Twitter employee guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia and the ruling royal family, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Wednesday.\u00a0 A jury in California on Tuesday convicted 44-year-old Ahmad Abouammo, a former media partnerships manager for the Middle East\/North Africa region at Twitter, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1174541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1229,6061,13443,8666,23071,12871,6393],"class_list":["post-1174538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-acting","tag-agent","tag-arabia","tag-employee","tag-extwitter","tag-guilty","tag-saudi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}