Saudi Arabia accuses Qatar of regulating Twitter to stoke dissent
PARIS: Saudi Arabia, that is heading a four-country besiege of Gulf neighbour Qatar, on Thursday indicted Doha of being behind over 23,000 Twitter accounts it blames for perplexing to stoke gainsay in Saudi Arabia.
“We found over 23,000 Twitter accounts driven by Qatar, some of them related to accounts job for ‘revolution’ in Saudi Arabia,” Information Minister Awwad Saleh al-Awwad told AFP during a revisit to Paris.
They enclosed a @mujtahidd account, that claims to have a inside lane on a Saudi stately domicile and has over 1.8 million followers, he said.
The account, that has corroborated Qatar, claimed that Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and a United Arab Emirates had set out to overpower Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani though motionless opposite after entrance underneath vigour from a United States, an fan of both Riyadh and Doha.
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Al-Awwad indicted a London-based Saudi dissident, Saad al-Faqih, of being behind a account, “together with Qatar”.
While some of @mujtahidd’s claims have proven false, it reported a genocide of Saudi King Abdullah in 2015 a few hours before a news was strictly announced.
Some of a other accounts identified by Riyadh as being Qatari proxies were behind calls for protests by a jobless on Apr 21, he said.
In a end, there were no critical demonstrations in Qatar, with military flooding a capital.
Further calls for protests during a holy fasting month of Ramazan also went mostly unheeded.
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“They failed,” al-Awwad declared.
His remarks came as Saudi Arabia vowed to pull on with a month-old protest of Qatar after a emirate refused to accommodate a list of final to finish a tactful crisis.
These embody Doha finale support for a Muslim Brotherhood and shutting a flagship broadcaster Al-Jazeera.
Saudi Arabia and a supporters have severed air, sea and belligerent links with Qatar, slicing off critical routes for imports including food.
Qatar has discharged a final as “unrealistic”.
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