Carl T. Bergstrom
ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org
A Saudi man has been sentenced to death for criticizing the government on two anonymous twitter/X accounts with a total of ten followers.
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1196776390/saudi-arabia-man-death-sentence-tweets
Gosh, NPR, I can't imagine how the Saudi authorities could have verified his identity on X.
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I also suspect that the Saudi investors got what they paid for…
Previously, they had to go this more involved route:
“An FBI complaint and federal investigation in the United States led to the conviction last year of a former Twitter employee found guilty of failing to register as an agent for Saudi Arabia. He was also convicted of taking bribes in exchange for passing along the confidential user data of Saudi government critics.”
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En Buen Ora 🆗
enbuenora@mstdn.social@ct_bergstrom as Twitter was approaching Elxn's control, I said over and over that *any* private information was going to be handed directly to his Saudi et al backers
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Charles OuGuo
ouguoc@mastodon.online@ct_bergstrom Looks like your link didn't quite work?
https://www.npr.org/2023/08/31/1196776390/saudi-arabia-man-death-sentence-tweets
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@ct_bergstrom I’ve been watching The West Wing, recently finished the one about CJ losing it over the Saudi girls being disallowed to exit a building because they weren’t properly dressed, and therefore died. “Partners in Peace”
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@ct_bergstrom Some F'n serious investigative journalism there.
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@ct_bergstrom Sounds like there may be a rat at X. Maybe a Muskrat….
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Continued…
Just highlighting that paragraph from the article.
They seem to have made real efforts to get to their Twitter critics for some time, and it’s really chilling.
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AKxAqAIvNYglLNlGi0.mxtthxw@mxtthxw.art@ct_bergstrom Let that sink in…
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Dave Rahardja
drahardja@sfba.social@ct_bergstrom The fact that @NPR failed to mention that the Saudis invested in Elon’s xitter takeover is borderline journalistic malpractice.
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@ct_bergstrom
Yeah... totally "unclear" how. /s🙄
https://www.newsweek.com/photo-elon-musk-jared-kushner-world-cup-draws-criticism-speculation-1768005
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Its freaking unbelievable...
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Isn’t Twitter being in cahoots with Saudi Arabia & exposing employees reason enough to investigate Twitter? Or is the @GOP protecting Musk as well as Trump?
Maybe the @thedemocrats should take good hard look in whose geopolitical beds Musk is snuggling up to these days?
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@ct_bergstrom Npr having an attack of the vapours.
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Carl T. Bergstrom
ct_bergstrom@fediscience.orgThese are the sorts of details that might’ve been relevant to mention in the story.
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Ollie, check pinned #fortie
olliethewobbly@kolektiva.social@ct_bergstrom see we need to eat the rich
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Scott Laird
laird@hachyderm.io@ct_bergstrom Saudi Arabia has a long and colorful history of spying on Twitter. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twitter-employees-charged-with-spying-for-saudi-arabia-by-digging-into-the-accounts-of-kingdom-critics/2019/11/06/2e9593da-00a0-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html.
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