Mr. Hashtag, or Steve Bannon Saudi Arabia, or Troll Master, Saud al - Qahtani, a close adviser to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was the spearhead in the planning of espionage and cyber attacks against its opponents.
Al-Qahtani worked until a week ago, when he was dismissed from his post as a media adviser to Ben Salman. He used the propaganda on the Internet, mass media, extensive counterfeiting of information and attacks on dissidents in the past few years.
Al-Qahtani said that Al-Qahtani was the one who signed with the famous Italian company, "The Time", which sells spyware to his country, which monitors the opposition and bought from the company piracy tools for a number of government agencies of the Kingdom, and bought 20% of this company to save it from crisis Hit her after piracy in 2015.
The website said that Al-Qahtani deserved the title "Troll Master", the king of the accounts also imaginary, to create thousands of these accounts to carry out his cyber campaigns to counterfeit and defamation of opponents and attack them.
Al-Qahtani's Twitter tool, which used to publish inflammatory political statements against opponents of the Saudi regime in the region, is the certainty that counts for him: @ saudq1978, which was set up in February 2011.
Al-Qahtani used e-mail address: audq1978@gmail.com in 2009 to register his account as a member of the popular site Hack Forams, which specializes in piracy and cybercrime.
Saudi Arabia's favorite online tool to fight opponents is the Twitter Botts, the website said, to spread misinformation that is part of a broader crackdown on freedom of expression that has been brightly lit by the recent killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
He added that Saudi Arabia had become a sophisticated machine for piracy capable of targeting opponents living in the West expensive spy programs.