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Jeff Bezos and Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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- $4. Investigators said they had credible information that Bezos was hacked by a WhatsApp number belonging to the Crown Prince in May 2018.
- $4. The unnamed officials also said that senior adviser to the crown prince, Saud al-Qahtani, was also involved in the hacking as part of a broader intimidation campaign against Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in October 2018 at the hands of Saudi agents.
- $4. In his first public comment since the initial reports, Bezos tweeted a photo on Wednesday showing himself attending a vigil in 2019 for Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whose death has been linked to the Saudi government.
- $4. The forensic analysis of Bezos' phone was first obtained by Motherboard.
- $4. The Saudi Embassy in the US called via Twitter on Wednesday for "an investigation on these claims so that we can have all the facts out."
- $4. The CEO would oversee TikTok's day-to-day operations and "non-technical functions," and work alongside the app's two most senior executives: TikTok chief Alex Zhu, who is based in Asia, and Vanessa Pappas, who heads TikTok's US operations.
- $4. Most of Trump's postings were re-tweets of Republican members of Congress, staff on his re-election campaign, and Fox News hosts defending him against the Democrats' impeachment case.
- $4. Motorola's revival of the iconic Razr phone will be available to pre-order in the US starting on January 26, and it'll be available to buy online and in stores in the US starting on February 6, the company announced Wednesday.
- $4. Sandberg said the company had learned from the 2016 election.
- $4. Musk has been extremely taken with the recent screen adaptation of "The Witcher" on Netflix.
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