…By the second Obama administration, Saudi Twitter had become a place for the kingdom's rulers to propagandise, track dissident thought and identify victims for Prince Mohammed's personal team of enforcers. Many Saudis knew better than to post on Twitter under their real names. But the Saudi government was able to unmask pseudonymous accounts and trace their owners, who were then arrested. For a long time, dissident Saudis wondered how exactly government security forces had unmasked their friends and family members, and whether there were any countermeasures they could take. They assumed the Saudi government had access to the finest western security contractors and advanced spyware software. They didn't yet know that Prince Mohammed and his henchmen had something better: a spy ring inside Twitter itself…
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