Twitter suspends the account of Saudi royal adviser
Saud al- Qahtani was a close confidant of the Saudi Crown Prince; the platform also removed 267 pro-Saudi accounts in the UAE and Egypt
20 September 2019 - 17:19
Brussels/San Francisco — Twitter suspended the account of former Saudi royal court adviser Saud al-Qahtani on Friday, nearly a year after he was sacked over his suspected role in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
The social network also separately removed accounts linked to Saudi Arabia’s “state-run media apparatus” and others in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egypt, all of them amplifying pro-Saudi messages, according to a company blog post...
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