Twitter just suspended over 88,000 accounts tied to a Saudi disinformation campaign

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Twitter announced in a blog post Friday that it had removed more than 88,000 accounts that it said were engaged in "platform manipulation" originating in Saudi Arabia.
The accounts engaged in "spammy behavior," Twitter said, aggressively liking, retweeting, and replying to amplify messages that were favorable to the Saudi government's interests. Twitter's investigation found that the accounts originated from a Saudi social-media marketing company called Smaat, which also manages several official Saudi government accounts. It referred to the operation as "state-backed."
The tweets were primarily in Arabic, but a small portion of content targeted Western audiences, Twitter said. Those tweets advocated Saudi positions regarding sanctions in Iran and public opinion regarding Saudi government officials.
Twitter published comprehensive data on 5,929 of those accounts but said it was keeping the rest confidential to protect the privacy of "potentially compromised accounts" that were used for the spam campaign.