Last August, a former Twitter manager named Ahmad Abouammo was convicted of acting as a foreign agent for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of two employees caught accepting bribes to pass along confidential user data in violation of the company’s privacy policy.
If you were wondering how they got the info (at least in the past):
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/areej-al-sadhan-sister-aid-worker-jailed-twitter-account-speaks-out-saudi-cultural-investment-expands-with-pga-tour-merger/
Wow that’s as shitty as hacking someone with a saw in an embassy.
In the fediverse that would be even easier and cheaper for them. Just show up to the house of the admin “give us the info we want, or else…”