Report: Twitter suspends bots tweeting in support of Saudis on Khashoggi

• Many of the accounts were fairly old for a botnet — many were created last November and some were created in 2011 and 2014 — which also came as somewhat of a surprise.

The bots were tweeting messages that sought to sow doubt that Khashoggi’s disappearance and suspected death is linked to the kingdom. It was not clear who had created the accounts.

There’s not necessarily evidence all the accounts were pro-Saudi, according to Twitter, which points to how difficult attribution can be. The accounts were removed for violating Twitter’s spam policy.