Lawsuit Claims Twitter Turns ‘Blind Eye’ to Saudi Torture, Suppression
Brigette Honaker
July 1, 2020
A Saudi Arabian journalist recently hit Twitter with a lawsuit claiming the social media platform ignores Saudi Arabia’s suppression of dissenters.
Plaintiff Ali Al-Ahmed is an activist, journalist and…
Lawsuit: Twitter and Saudi Arabia ‘in league’ together
John O'Brien
July 8, 2020
NEW YORK (Legal Newsline) – A political refugee is suing Twitter over its relationship with Saudi Arabia, his home country.
Ali Al-Ahmed filed a lawsuit June 29 in New York federal court that claims Saudi…
Twitter Sued Over Collusion With Saudi Arabia In Shutting Down Political Opposition Accounts
July 7 2020
Twitter has been sued for conspiring with the government of Saudi Arabia to shut down accounts of political opposition figures. The press release is below.
WASHINGTON, July 1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ –A blockbuster lawsuit has…
Yahoo: What Saudi Arabians want from Antony Blinken, Biden’s pick for secretary of state
By: Ali Al-Ahmed
December 10, 2020
On Jan. 20, the Biden administration will inherit a relationship with Saudi Arabia that is as troubled as it has ever been, and it will likely be up to Antony Blinken, the president-elect’s pick for…
Twitter Turns ‘Blind Eye’ To Saudi Arabia Torture, Suit Says
Law360 (June 29, 2020, 10:46 PM EDT) -- Prominent Saudi Arabian political dissident Ali Al-Ahmed hit Twitter Inc. with a lawsuit on Monday, accusing the social media giant of enabling and turning a "blind eye" to Saudi Arabia's…
Saudi Arabia Is Scrubbing Hate Speech from School Books. Why That’s a Win for the Trump…
KIMBERLY DOZIER
DECEMBER 15, 2020 9:00 AM EST
Students in Saudi Arabia, like so many around the world, have traded in-person classrooms for logging onto an app during the COVID-19 pandemic. But they’re also experiencing other major…
‘To Protect Myself And My Family’: Saudi Critics Abroad Fear Long Reach Of The Crown
Jackie Northam
October 8, 20207:56 AM ET
Saad Aljabri knows a lot of secrets. The former senior intelligence official in Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry was a valued partner of the U.S. government, a man who had access to troves of…
Spies in Silicon Valley: Twitter Breach Tied to Saudi Dissident Arrests
Ryan GallagherAugust 19, 2020, 12:00 AM EDTAn internal breach at Twitter Inc. a half decade ago yielded data that was later used by Saudi Arabia to harass or arrest people critical of the government, according to lawsuits, human rights…
Records shed light on online harassment of Jamal Khashoggi before his killing
Joby Warrick
September 7, 2020 at 6:13 p.m. EDT
A few months before he was killed, dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi witnessed an ominous change in the kind of attention he was getting from his estranged…
A Saudi dissident suing Twitter over a massive 2016 hack says the platform’s incompetence got…
Bill Bostock
Aug 25, 2020, 9:42 AM
In July 2020, the US accused two Saudi nationals employed by Twitter of hacking accounts critical of the kingdom and passing their personal information to Saudi intelligence.…