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<\/a> Supreme Media Council to discuss website ban today:<\/strong> The newly-founded Supreme Media Council will meet today to discuss the Ismail government\u2019s decision last week<\/a> to block access to 21 news websites for allegedly publishing fake news and hosting pro-terrorism content,Al Mal reports<\/a>. The decision, which restricted access to news websites including Mada Masr, Huffington Post Arabic, Qatar\u2019s Al Jazeera, as well as Al Borsa<\/a> and Daily News Egypt, is \u201cstandard procedure\u201d when sites pose a threat to national security, council member Nadia Mabrouk tells Al Mal.<\/p>\n

Rumors have been circulating that the ban has been lifted<\/strong>, the newspaper says, but local news website Mada Masr, which is still accessible from overseas and locally through virtual private networks, put out an official statement through Facebook<\/a> saying that it can\u2019t confirm the news<\/strong> \u201cas accessibility varies for users on the same service providers and is still completely blocked on others,\u201d promising to update readers once it gets official word.<\/p>\n

Al Borsa and Daily News Egypt are intermittently accessible from inside Egypt<\/strong>, while other sites including Al Jazeera and HuffPost are broadly inaccessible. Al Borsa\u2019s backup domain \u2014 elborsanews.com<\/a> \u2014 is steadily accessible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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