{"id":7673,"date":"2022-11-04T05:37:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T04:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/alarm-on-capitol-hill-over-saudi-investment-in-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T05:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T04:37:34","slug":"alarm-on-capitol-hill-over-saudi-investment-in-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/alarm-on-capitol-hill-over-saudi-investment-in-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm on Capitol Hill over Saudi investment in Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Possible access to users\u2019 data could pose national security risk and could be used to target kingdom\u2019s dissidents<\/p>\n<p>It has been five years since Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who has been known for decades as among one of the richest Middle East investors, received a phone call summoning him to the royal court in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>The prince \u2013 who together with his investment firm has emerged as the second-largest investor in Twitter after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s takeover of the social media platform \u2013 became a prisoner.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/03\/saudi-twitter-investment-us-national-security-risk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/530099716397b514eb7c3a46d09a2d812560b66f\/0_322_4966_2980\/master\/4966.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1ac388c6077d08ed1be521da23c3d26d\" title=\"Alarm on Capitol Hill over Saudi investment in Twitter\" \/>Possible access to users\u2019 data could pose national security risk and could be used to target kingdom\u2019s dissidents<br \/>\nIt has been five years since Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who has been known for decades as among one of the richest Middle East investors, received a phone call summoning him to the royal court in Riyadh.<br \/>\nThe prince \u2013 who together with his investment firm has emerged as the second-largest investor in Twitter after Elon Musk\u2019s takeover of the social media platform \u2013 became a prisoner. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Possible access to users\u2019 data could pose national security risk and could be used to target kingdom\u2019s dissidents It has been five years since Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, who has been known for decades as among one of the richest Middle East investors, received a phone call summoning him to the royal court in Riyadh. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/alarm-on-capitol-hill-over-saudi-investment-in-twitter\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Alarm on Capitol Hill over Saudi investment in Twitter<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}