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Egyptian Prime Minister Becomes First Ever To Be Fired On Facebook

March 3, 2011 · Mustapha Hamoui

BBC:

“The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces decided to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq and appointed Essam Sharaf to form the new government,” the army said in a statement on its Facebook page.

Quite clever of the Armed forces to use Facebook as its primary mode of communication. I wonder what this is supposed to mean.