CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo-based digital marketing firm promoted military rule in Sudan, days after the sit-in was disbanded, the New York Times said in an investigation.
The company, named "New Waves", paid employees $ 180 a month for the use of fake accounts to promote military rule in Sudan, the newspaper said.
She told her staff to promote stories such as "Protesters have created chaos in Sudan, their demands for democracy are premature and dangerous, and order must be restored and the army must now rule."
According to the investigation, retired Major General Amr Hussein, a supporter of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, ran the company, which in turn refused to comment on Facebook's accusations.
With regard to the company's headquarters, the newspaper pointed out that the company was based on a housing project owned by the army east of Cairo.
The role of the UAE
The newspaper said the Egyptian company bore the name of a UAE company Facebook announced the closure of hundreds of fake accounts belonging to that company in August.
The New York Times reports that the two companies have obtained fake accounts to manage pages on Facebook allegedly belonging to news sites.
These pages often included publications on real news or light entertainment, as well as fabricated material.
Facebook said Egyptian and UAE companies worked together to manage 361 accounts and "fabricated" pages with 13.7 million users, spending $ 167,000 on advertising and using fake identities to hide their role in the process.