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Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty of providing sensitive personal information of users who criticized the Saudi government to an aide of the Saudi royal family.

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Former head of Twitter security Peiter Zatko explained the company has previously employed foreign agents.

There were some troubling revelations from Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, a respected cybersecurity expert and Twitter whistleblower who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to lay out his allegations against the company.

Twitter "simply lacked the fundamental abilities to hunt for foreign intelligence agencies and expel them on their own", Peiter Zatko told the US Senate on Tuesday.

Elon Musk gets to see if Twitter is hiding from its investors the actual count of bots and fake accounts on its platform.

“By knowingly permitting an Indian government agent direct unsupervised access to the company’s systems and user data, Twitter executives violated the company’s commitments to its users,” says Peiter Zatko's complaint.

In a San Francisco court, Abouammo has now been convicted by a jury of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, falsifying records and money laundering and faces up to 20 years in prison, the media reported late on Tuesday.

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Billionaire has access to the company’s fire hose of tweets, but data specialists say analyzing it isn’t easy