Swarms Of Saudi Twitter Trolls Worked To Silence Voices Like Khashoggi’s

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Legions of Twitter trolls working on behalf of the Saudi government targeted critics of the regime, like the allegedly murdered journalist Jamel Khashoggi, and may have even planted one of their own inside the company itself.

In a Saturday New York Times report, details surfaced of attempts to intimidate dissidents and silence criticism as Saudi Arabia’s economic future looks uncertain, thus its place on the world stage threatened.

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