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The media war between the Egyptian government and the opposition, dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, escalated in September with the publication on social networks of a series of videos accusing the army of corruption.
From our correspondent in Cairo,
The one by whom the scandal has arrived is called Mohammed Ali. He is a building contractor, sometimes an actor, who lives in Spain. He has published a series of videos accusing the army of making huge and illicit profits by controlling the construction sector. He claimed to have himself been harmed tens of millions of euros by the military before directly attack President Sissi accused of squandering the money of the people palace and luxury hotels including the new administrative capital. Although he does not provide any evidence to support the charges, his videos have become viral.
Sissi denies en bloc
The Egyptian media unleashed against Mohammed Ali accused of being a crook who fled Egypt with tens of millions of euros and especially to be the instrument of the Muslim Brotherhood seeking to destabilize Egypt and its army by a fourth generation digital war. The cancellation by Twitter of tens of thousands of fake accounts participating in a hashtag against President Sissi is considered a proof of this 4G war even if thousands of other real accounts resumed the hashtag . President Sissi himself stepped up to the plate saying that all that was said against the army was a web of lies designed to disfigure the new administrative capital and all the infrastructure projects undertaken.
Spreads on the internet severely punished
For the moment it's the opposite. Power announces investments to increase Internet speed. Apart from firewalls blocking some two hundred sites more or less related to Qatar, browsing the internet is free.
However, a 2018 law against digital crime allows authorities to close any site " threatening national security " and considers any user followed by more than 5,000 people as a media. He can therefore be subject to a heavy fine and even imprisonment if he publishes " false information ".
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