#monitoring social media
Egypt’s incoming government seems to be tightening its grip on dissent by preparing to regulate social media. Egypt's security forces are currently looking to hire seven foreign companies to monitor Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Viber and other social media tools for dissent. The story was first published in the local Egyptian newspaper Al-Watan, after the paper leaked a government proposal detailing a program aimed to “detect social network security threats and identify persons representing a danger to society.” Egypt’s interior minister Mohamed…
