Egypt wants to launch its own “Facebook”

Egypt wants to launch its own “Facebook”: Egypt has taken “active and positive steps” to create its own Facebook-like social media network, ICT Minister Yasser El Kady said yesterday during a Justice Ministry workshop on combating “terrorist propaganda”, Al Masry Al Youm reports. This comes less than a month after the Cabinet introduced its proposed Cyber Crimes Act to the House, with MPs arguing that the law would make it easier to run surveillance of social media.