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27 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
MBS's disinfo accounts on Twitter are trolling Americans by posting pictures of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. I guess that's MBS's own sort of whataboutism: "You aren't better than me". Your move @POTUS, can America be better?
More examples of Saudi state disinformation employing whataboutism and spreading anti-American messaging: Let MBS get away with Jamal's murder because Hiroshima
MBS's disinformation department suddenly wants you to know that Black Lives Matter and police brutality is bad in America
It's the next day, and MBS's disinformation accounts (Twitter is crawling with them) are continuing their narrative of whataboutism targeting the United States of America:

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