Business Maverick: Convicted Twitter spy says US hid whistle-blower report

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A former Twitter employee, who was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia by turning over personal information of platform users, said he deserves a new trial because prosecutors didn’t tell him about a whistle-blower’s report on security lapses at the ...

Abouammo’s allegation that prosecutors committed misconduct by withholding the report is one of several arguments his lawyers made in Thursday’s filing to try to get a judge to set aside the jury’s 9 August guilty verdict. Such motions are routine in criminal cases and rarely succeed.

“Given the government’s and its witnesses’ focus on Twitter security and efforts to fend off foreign interference, the information provided by Zatko would have been a central and compelling aspect of the defence case,” according to the filing.

 

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