Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses

library_napper , 10 months ago

The new legal filing comes days after Human Rights Watch condemned a Saudi court for sentencing a man to death based solely on his Twitter and YouTube activity, which it called an “escalation” of the government’s crackdown on freedom of expression.

hrw.org/…/saudi-arabia-man-sentenced-death-tweets

sunbeam60 , 10 months ago

Not the only war crime Twitter commits then. Their flagrant disregard of POW footage drives me up the wall.

downpunxx , 10 months ago

It's the reason Musk bought it in the first place, the Saudis couldn't buy the conversation to kill it, so they found a patsy who would. The value that Twitter, has, and will lose, the eventual bankruptcy of the corporation, the 40 Billion mean nothing to either Musk or the Saudis, a pittance, not even worth considering.

Thorny_Thicket , 10 months ago

Or that’s what the saudis want and Musk is just the useful idiot. Maybe he just wanted twitter and was willing to take the funding from whoever was offering it.

autotldr Bot , 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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The new legal filing comes days after Human Rights Watch condemned a Saudi court for sentencing a man to death based solely on his Twitter and YouTube activity, which it called an “escalation” of the government’s crackdown on freedom of expression.

After Abouammo resigned in May 2015, he continued to contact Twitter to field requests he was receiving from Bader al-Asaker, a senior aide of Mohammed bin Salman, for the identity of confidential users.

The lawsuit also alleges that Twitter had “ample notice” of security risks to internal personal data, and that there was a threat of insiders illegally accessing it, based on public reporting at the time.

Between July and December 2015, Twitter granted the kingdom information requests “significantly more often” than most other countries at that time, including Canada, the UK, Australia, and Spain, the lawsuit alleges.

Twitter would later notify users who had been exposed, telling them their data “may” have been targeted, but did not provide more specific information about the scale or certainty that the breach had, in fact, occurred.

Dorsey met with bin Salman about six months after the company was made aware of the issue by the FBI, and the two discussed how to “train and qualify Saudi cadres”.

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