media. we're going to get more on this now from. one of my egyptian colleagues who's been following this story for us walk us through what's happening here why is the government with the egyptian government cracking down on people with all these social media followers the government doesn't actually say that it cracks down on people with large social media accounts it says that it's introducing this law as you said is part of a larger package of laws to crackdown partially on fake news and to maintain the security of the country now why social media as our viewers may already know during egypt's version of the arab spring social media was a huge part of. the uprising and during this time you had a large group large groups of activists who in a very short time gained a very large following and the hundred thousands and some of them even in the millions and. in egypt the state's control over. traditional media outlets like newspapers and t.v. stations is pretty tight whether it's public...