2020: How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter<p>> <i>When the conversation concluded, management seized Alzabarah’s laptop, put him on administrative leave, and escorted him out of the building.</i><p>> <i>At 5:17 p.m. he called a handler, identified as Associate-1 in the FBI complaint, who arrived in a white SUV two hours later. Driving around Alzabarah’s neighborhood, the two men called “Foreign Official-l” — al-Asaker, according to the Washington Post — at 7:20 p.m., and again at 7:22 p.m. and 7:31 p.m. They then called Dr. Faisal Al Sudairi, the Saudi consul general in Los Angeles, at 8:30 p.m., 8:38 p.m., and 9:26 p.m. Shortly after midnight, the consul general called Alzabarah back and spoke with him for three minutes.</i><p>> <i>Early the next morning, Alzabarah, his wife, and daughter boarded a plane for Saudi Arabia.</i><p><a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saudi-arabia-infiltrated-twitter" rel="nofollow">https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-saud...</a><p>Twitter basically let him walk out. Probably afraid of backlash in case they called the cops on him.