Pro-Saudi trolls use hijacked Twitter accounts

The World

Thousands of Twitter accounts, including one belonging to a deceased American TV weatherman, have been hacked and used for pro-Saudi propaganda. Host Carol Holls gets the story from Marc Owen Jones, a college professor who discovered the hacks.

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