Background: Canada's Foreign Ministry "Tweeted" out a message
last week calling on Saudi Arabia
"Canada is gravely concerned about additional arrests of civil society and
women's rights activists in Saudi Arabia, including Samar Badawi. We urge the
Saudi authorities to immediately release them and all other peaceful human
rights activists,"
This got them very pissed, and they kicked out the Canadian Ambassador
to Riyadh, pulled their own from Canada, and unleashed what seems
to have been a Twitter Bot storm
One of the posts included an image of an airplane about to
crash into a Canadian landmark. Just like 9/11.
They deleted it, but praise be the Streisand Effect:
[twitter]
Tobias Schneider
Verified account @tobiaschneider
Now deleted, here a screenshot of the threatening Saudi "infographic" featuring
an airliner headed for the Toronto skyline. pic.twitter.com/LrkCLxxjFk
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/saudi-arabia-suspends-trade-canada-ambassador-1.4775133
Tobias SchneiderVerified account @tobiaschneider
Research Fellow at @GPPi
Editing @SyriaContext
International Security and Middle East Policy
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