The social media company formerly known as Twitter has been accused in a revised civil US lawsuit of helping Saudi Arabia commit grave human rights abuses against its users, including by disclosing confidential user data at the request of Saudi authorities at a much higher rate than it has for the US, UK, or Canada.

The lawsuit was brought last May against X, as Twitter is now known, by Areej al-Sadhan, the sister of a Saudi aid worker who was forcibly disappeared and then later sentenced to 20 years in jail.

It centers on the events surrounding the infiltration of the California company by three Saudi agents, two who were posing as Twitter employees in 2014 and 2015, which ultimately led to the arrest of al-Sadhan’s brother, Abdulrahman, and the exposure of the identity of thousands of anonymous Twitter users, some of whom were later reportedly detained and tortured as part of the government’s crackdown on dissent.

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    What?! You mean to tell me Elon Musk doesn’t value human lives at all? Are you suggesting he accepts payments by governments to hand over user data that gets innocent people tortured to death? Are you saying he’s some kind of vile, sub-human conservative piece of shit?! Say it ain’t so!

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      I know we all love to shit on Elon, but read the article:

      Lawyers for Al-Sadhan updated their claim last week to include new allegations about how Twitter, under the leadership of then-chief executive Jack Dorsey, willfully ignored or had knowledge of the Saudi government’s campaign to ferret out critics

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      This looks to have taken place when Jack was still in charge there. Not that Elon hasn’t spent every waking hour since the buyout proving himself to be terrible, but it’s useful to remember that just because the current guy is really bad doesn’t retroactively make the guy before him good.