NYTimes report shows how Twitter, McKinsey were complicit in helping Saudi Arabia silence critics
An especially disturbing anecdote at the end of the Times story revealed a McKinsey & Company study measured the public reception of economic austerity measures introduced in Saudi Arabia in 2015. The report found that the measures got twice as much coverage on Twitter as they did in more traditional news outlets, and the Twitter reaction was much more negative than positive.
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/20/18003792/...mckinsey-twitter-khashoggi
Three people were driving the conversation on Twitter, the firm found: the writer Khalid al-Alkami; Mr. Abdulaziz, the young dissident living in Canada; and an anonymous user who went by Ahmad.
After the report was issued, Mr. Alkami was arrested, the human rights group ALQST said. Mr. Abdulaziz said that Saudi government officials imprisoned two of his brothers and hacked his cellphone, an account supported by a researcher at Citizen Lab. Ahmad, the anonymous account, was shut down.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/us/politics/...mpaign-twitter.html
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