Ex-Twitter worker sentenced for a surprising reason

Twitter has been on the agenda for various reasons but this reason is by far the most surprising. Here are the details.

Twitter's name has been all over internet for a while now. After long debates of whether Elon Musk will buy the platform or not the company has now made an appearence with something different. A former employee convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia received a sentence on Wednesday of three and a half years in a rare instance of Twitter drama unrelated to the company's owner.

Ex-Twitter worker sentenced for a surprising reason

In August, a jury found Ahmad Abouammo guilty of accepting bribes from a Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman aide. He allegedly gave sensitive account information in return, which could have helped locate and silence dissidents. About half of the seven years that were requested by prosecutors were granted to Abouammo, a US citizen who was born in Egypt. The evidence revealed that the former Twitter media partnership manager received $300,000 and a $20,000 Hublot watch from bin Salman's aide. He claimed that he was just doing his job. At the end of August, a Twitter whistleblower suggested that the scandal was a reflection of a broader practice at the company that lacked data security.