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BREAKING: Saudi Foreign Ministry confirms that Jamal #Khashoggi died "during a fight" at the consulate in Istanbul.

May he rest in peace, and his fiancée be allowed to mourn in peace.
Per @BBC, two top officials have been dismissed over the affair.

One is named as Saud al-Qahtani, a senior aide to MBS.

bbc.com/news/world-mid…
If it's the same man who uses the handle @SaudQ1978, he was the chief driver of pro-Saudi hashtags during the Twitter war between Saudi and Qatar last year.

jia.sipa.columbia.edu/robot-wars-how…
Here's an example from an earlier scan. Total tweet flow, approx 45k.

Raw retweets of SaudQ1978, approx 30k.

Huge, huge Twitter influencer for the House of Saud.
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Ha, looks like I really pissed off the Kremlin "information weapon" (to quote its own editor-in-chief).

They hate it when someone reveals how they work by citing actual evidence.
Looks like this is what triggered them. @thetimes on the role of Sputnik's parent company, which is to "secure the interests of the Russian Federation in the information sphere."

Sputnik claims that doesn't apply to them. Seriously.

H/t @macca808

thetimes.co.uk/article/edinbu…
Source for that quote? The founding charter of the Rossiya Segodnya agency, which is Sputnik's parent.

Evidence here: medium.com/dfrlab/putinat…
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Aaaand it's takedown time in #Bangladesh too.

@Twitter and @Facebook both just announced takedowns of a small number of inauthentic assets, possibly tied to state actors.

Some initial analysis with the great @karankanishk here, for @DFRLab:

medium.com/@DFRLab/electi…
Here's @TwitterSafety's take on it: a small number of assets, possibly state-linked.

15 accounts so far, low follower numbers, engaged in coordinated platform manipulation.

And here's @fbnewsroom: six accounts, nine pages. Taken down for coordinated inauthentic behaviour, i.e. a network of counterfeit accounts.

"Linked to individuals associated with the #Bangladesh government."

newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/t…
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BREAKING: UK telecoms regulator @Ofcom finds Kremlin broadcaster RT guilty of violating the rules on due impartiality seven times in six weeks, post-Salisbury.

"Serious failure of compliance." Sanction being considered.

ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/…
For context, RT violated the rules on due impartiality and due accuracy with 10 programmes between 2014 and 16, so 7 in 6 weeks is a major escalation.

Violations concerned reporting on Ukraine, Crimea, Turkey and Syria.

Background: medium.com/dfrlab/ofcom-a…
Important to note that over the same period, @Ofcom found at least eight RT programmes +not+ guilty of violations.

In case anyone fancies trying to argue that Ofcom is biased...
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#BREAKING 'We don't know where the body is,' says Saudi foreign minister on Jamal #Khashoggi
#BREAKING Khashoggi killing a 'tremendous mistake,' crown prince 'not aware': Saudi foreign minister
#BREAKING Saudi-US ties 'will weather this,' says Saudi foreign minister on Khashoggi
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Let's talk about how Kushner and Trump are closely connected to the murder of Jamal #Khashoggi by goons sent by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, who goes by MbS.

[THREAD]
1/ Kushner & Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) have "forged a bond" the last two years. They are both about the same age, both ambitious, both the hidden powers behind their respective thrones, both men of wealth & taste. Born on third base and think they hit a triple, as the joke goes.
2/ In Riyadh last October, on Kushner's sudden unannounced trip, the two stayed up until four in the morning, “swapping stories and planning strategy."

One of the “stories” swapped, apparently, was classified information compiled from the President’s Daily Brief.
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💰Saudi💰

📌Did Khoshoggi reveal Kush & MBS’s shake down of RP Al-Waleed bin Talal on Egyptian TV?

📌Trump says MBS is being Mistreated Just Like Kavanaugh

📌Trump criticized rising global condemnation of SA over the case of missing, Khashoggi, warning of a rush to judgment.
💰Saudi2💰

📌Suspects in Khashoggi Case Had Ties to Saudi Crown Prince

📌Today Trump said that "I have no financial interests in Saudi Arabia" contrary to boasts "I make a lot of money with them."

📌Trump has made millions from the Saudi government, over the years.
💰Saudi3💰

📌The crown prince MBS gave Trump’s NYC hotel a huge boost.

📌Trump tweeted that he had "no financial interests in SA" after criticism for his response to the disappearance of Khashoggi.

📌Trump’s businesses have accepted large amounts of 💰 from the Saudi gov’t.
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#Khashoggi Case Thread: I am going to ‘pin’ this post to use it as an ‘Info Thread’ on the #Khashoggi Case. I am in #Turkey. I’ve been following the case closely and with access to sources & experts here. This is a very ‘sensitive’ criminal case due to ‘Diplomatic Booby Traps’!!!
The Evidence Obtained Outside Cameras will not show any evidence of ‘tempering’ but other than license plates of dozens of diplomatic cars (Many with tinted windows-large trunks) with related time stamp, drivers Info, model/year: Nothing.
#Turkish Intel-Investigative Bodies also have the list of all Diplomatic & Private Saudi & “other significant’ Planes in #Turkey for the period of ‘interest.’ Many of the Target airports have their own security cameras & related evidence.
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Turkey has concluded that Jamal #Khashoggi, a prominent journalist from Saudi Arabia, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this week by a 15-member Saudi team sent “specifically for the murder" washingtonpost.com/world/middle_e…
"#Khashoggi visited the consulate to obtain documents related to his upcoming wedding.

The killing, if confirmed, would mark a stunning escalation of Saudi Arabia’s effort to silence dissent, rounding up clerics, business execs & women’s rights advocates"
"The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. #Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate." reuters.com/article/us-sau…
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1/ The #Saudi kidnapping of #Khashoggi reminds me of the kidnapping of #Hariri. It is meant to embarrass the other party, this time the gov of #Turkey, and provoke a diplomatic crisis. This is drug Cartel methods. It has no other goal than to assert power over the other.
2/ However, resorting to these methods to assert power in the political and international affairs sphere is always a sign of weakness and a sign of a power in crisis. #SaudiArabia
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