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Brother of prominent Saudi scholar sentenced to death over tweets (www.middleeasteye.net)

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Tweets made from anonymous account with nine followers, focused on unemployment, inflation, mismanagement of resources, release of political prisoners.

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[–] scarrtt@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Blood and Oil is a fascinating book about the rise of MBS. They literally had a guy on the inside in Twitter in California who would feed them back information like this. Definitely not a boring book, it reads like a thriller more often than not

[–] timespace@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Added to my reading list, thanks!