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A San Francisco federal jury convicted a former Twitter manager of spying for Saudi Arabia and selling private user information to the kingdom’s government, in a ruling on Tuesday. 
Ahmad Abouammo is a US-Lebanese dual national whose job was to help oversee relationships with journalists and celebrities in the Middle East and North Africa. He faced 11 charges, which included money laundering, fraud and working as an illegal agent of a foreign government, and was found guilty on six of them, according to a copy of the verdict.
Prosecutors say that Abouammo, 44, received over $300,000 as well as a watch valued at over $20,000 from the Saudis in exchange for revealing information about critics of their government, such as their email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and other data used to identify people behind anonymous accounts.
"The evidence shows that, for a price and thinking no one was watching, the defendant sold his position to an insider of the crown prince.