Soon after the news of Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos’s, phone getting hacked by Saudi Crown Prince went viral, an army of pro-Saudi Twitter trolls has now started issuing calls to boycott Amazon in the rise of accusations that a WhatsApp message from the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman led to Jeff Bezos’ iPhone being hacked.

According to the director of investigations, Ben Nimmo, on Thursday, around 8,500 tweets had been posted by “fans of MBS” calling for people to stop using se vices from the world’s richest man’s business.

Most of these tweets were sent in Arabic and some in English that asked people to boycott se vices provided by Amazon.

Nimmo has expertise in tracking trolls across social media sites. He said that the boycott campaign originated with one account, @mbs_mbsksa.
Soon after Nimmo sounded the alarm, that Twitter account was immediately suspended.

#BoycottAmazon

One text in English from that pro-Saudi tweet post read: “If you do not apologize, you will accept the loss of millions of dollars at the hands of the Saudi people.”
In most of these tweets, one Arabic hashtag has used that read in English, #BoycottAmazon.

Marc Owen Jones, who is an assistant professor in Middle East Studies and Digital Humanities at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha, stated that after considering the account’s bio, he suspected it had belonged to someone who had earlier been blocked by Twitter due to their troll-like activity.

As per th reports, the tweets came after a forensic report from FTI Consulting, issued in full by Vice on Wednesday and first reported on by the Financial Times, claimed that a video sent in 2018 from MBS’ phone number to Bezos over WhatsApp was the reason behind Bezos’s iPhone getting hacked.

Bezos even accused the publisher of the National Enquirer of blackmail in a Medium post in February 2019 over allegations that the celebrity tabloid magazine had private images and personal details of the Amazon founder’s connection with actress Lauren Sanchez.

Days later, Bezos’ security chief, Gavin De Becker, issued an op-ed where he claimed that the Saudi nationals were responsible for stealing the Amazon founder’s private data.

FTI was ordered to forensically study the device and discover messages from MBS that seemed to reveal Bezos’ private life.

The Saudi Arabian government referred the claims it hacked Bezos’ iPhone as “absurd.”

Amazon’s founder is not the only person who is blaming Saudis. Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist who was killed in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, was also a target.

The post #BoycottAmazon Trends On Twitter After Jeff Bezos Claimed Saudi’s Crown Prince Hacked His Phone appeared first on The Digital Weekly.