US jury finds ex-Twitter employee guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia

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A popular jury in San Francisco (California, USA) found guilty on Tuesday a former employee of the social network Twitter of

.

According to court documents,

, of Egyptian origin and resident in the United States, was found guilty of acting as an agent for the Saudi country, money laundering, conspiracy to commit fraud and document falsification.

The accumulation of these four crimes could lead to

.

During his time on Twitter, Abouammo took private data from users critical of the Saudi regime -many of whom used pseudonyms to achieve anonymity- and shared them with the government of that country

.

During his time as an employee at the social network, Abouammo was responsible for

in the Middle East and Africa.

In addition, he shared with the Saudi government information about the

those critical of the government.

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