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21 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Dozens of Al Jazeera journalists allegedly hacked using Israeli firm’s spyware
theguardian.com/media/2020/dec…
"Citizen Lab researchers say cyber-attack using NSO Group software likely ordered by Saudia Arabia and UAE"
"Citizen Lab said it identified 36 personal phones inside Al Jazeera that it claims were hacked by four distinct “clusters”, which the researchers attributed to NSO Group operators."
Importantly, of the 36 reporters known to have been hacked in this attack, most remain anonymous. The summer hack and leak operation against Ghada Oueiss, an Al Jazeera anchor, by as yet an unofficially unattributed entity, shows how private information is then weaponized

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10 Dec
The full list of defendants in the Ghada Oueiss lawsuit makes an interesting read. From Saudi and Emirate outlets, entities and news outlets, to a random collection of pro-Saudi trolls. It's essentially a cross section of the players in Gulf info war.
The complaint is broken down into three phases, a recruitment stage, a hacking stage, and a defamation stage. Of course the trolls come in more in the defamation stage...
One of the complaints is against Abdullatif al Shaikh - who is accused of issuing an implicit death threat via Twitter. (Incidentally al Shaikh is a regular feature on disinfo campaigns). An interesting aspect of the case is that it states that this could not have been done
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24 Nov
[Thread]1/ Here is a table of how many suspended accounts per country have been published on Twitter's public state-backed information operation. With the case of Saudi, Egypt and UAE, Twitter sometimes combined their results, so I have included calculations (in orange) showing
2/ this. China comes on top, with a Saudi specific takedown combined with a Saudi/UAE/Egypt combined takedown in second. Third place is a UAE specific takedown combined with the Saudi/UAE/Egypt takedown. Attached here is a list of the MENA specific accounts
3/ Some separate calculations have been to, as we know that 88000 accounts linked to the Saudi company SMAAT were suspended, but not included in the archive (we also know this was the case for China).So some takeaways, according to official Twitter takedown data Saudi and the UAE
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11 Nov
The Bahrain Royal Court report that the Prime Minister of #Bahrain, Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the longest serving Prime Minister in the world, has passed away bna.bh/.aspx?cms=q8Fm…
Since Bahrain's Independence in 1971, Khalifa bin Salman has been one of the key driver's of political developments in Bahrain. Regarded as intelligent, shrewd and competent, KbS was also a ruthless defender of the status quo in Bahrain. His influence really increased
post-Independence, especially in regards to internal security, where he advocated for the demise of Bahrain's National Assembly in 1975, and drove much of the repression of Bahrain's opposition movements, and especially the Shia population
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7 Nov
[Thread] 1/ This morning's copypasta pro-Trump astroturfing suggests there is going to be a lot of divorces because of Joe Biden #Elections2020 #disinformation
2/ A lot of the accounts are sports fans of some description, like this, erm, 77 year-old pro FC Bayern fan who loves Trump, but also wants to see him lose (can't even tell if it's sarcasm) #Election2020results
3/ A little juicier. This copypasta crew are explicitly repeating the claim that the election was rigged, which again is false and misleading #Election2020results
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2 Nov
[thread] 1/ Strange digital #deception going on about UK hospitals trying to create idea covid19 isn't serious or stressing the NHS. It all started when @Intuitive1966 asked a question about whether hospitals were full. In steps @madogs93 - who claims to be a 'ward sister'
2/ in a '1600 bedder'. For those of us who have never heard this expression before (and that's all of us), this refers to the number of beds in the hospital. The tweet, designed to irresponsibly downplay severity of the pandemic, got 1600 retweets (one RT per bed). As many of you
3/ have noted, there was also much copypasta, with lots of people copy and pasting the tweet content. Many tweeps have raised concerns about whether madogs93 is lying, largely provoked by the odd turn of phrase '1600 bedder'. Let's look at some other inconsistencies though...
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25 Oct
I am kind of fascinated by boycotts, or rather, why people choose to boycott at specific times and not others, especially living in a country that has been boycotted. Recently I've been thinking about Yemen, thousands of Yemenis killed by US and British made weapons,
yet no boycott of US or UK. No substantial boycott of China despite internment of millions of Uighur Muslims. Remember that boycott of GAP, but not particularly other brands equally culpable in sweatshop labour? Trump's de facto boycott of Muslim countries, done as a policy
instrument, yet no boycott of US goods. Every boycott, or potential boycott is different, but the egregiousness of the original act certainly does not seem to be the soul component in allowing something to cross the boycott threshold. I think what's theoretically interesting,
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