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How Brute Violence Became Egypt’s Answer to Virtually Everything (fpif.org)
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In Abdel Fattah alSisi’s Egypt, Telling the Truth Is a Crime. The president's agencies have controlled, purchased, or coerced all mainstream media in the country, and opposition media in exile is largely partisan. So web platforms like Matsadaash play a valuable role as one of the last remaining voices for independent information in the so-called “hashtag war,” a milieu of severe repression and rampant disinformation.

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