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Egypt passes New law to tackle Fake News
August 21 , 2018
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- Egypt’s parliament has passed a law giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalize journalists held to be publishing fake news.
- The Supreme Council for the Administration of the Media, headed by an official appointed by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, will supervise the law and take action against violations.
- The bill prohibits the establishment of websites without obtaining a license from the Supreme Council and allows it to suspend or block existing websites.
- Recently, Egypt was ranked 161 out of 180 countries in the 2017 Press Freedom Index
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