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> Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after being convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia, Reuters and NBC News report.

> After leaving the company in 2015 Abouammo continued to attempt to influence Twitter to verify Saudi accounts or remove posts highlighted by the Saudi government, according to testimony from an FBI agent.

> One Saudi citizen was sentenced to 34 years in prison earlier this year for tweeting in protest of the government, while another was sentenced to 16 years.

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