Is Muslim Brotherhood using Clubhouse app to mobilize Egyptian support?
Many security sources and social media activists fear the Muslim Brotherhood could exploit the Clubhouse app to promote its ideas and recruit new operatives in Egypt.
CAIRO — Many Egyptians rushed to download and register on the audio-based chatroom app Clubhouse with the release of its Android version in Egypt, May 24, by Alpha Exploration Co., the app's developers.
Alpha Exploration’s global launch of its app for Android follows its success in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in early May, and in Brazil, Japan and Russia on May 18. Roll out to India started May 21.
In Egypt, Clubhouse quickly gained popularity, although it was only available to iPhone users and its operating system iOS at first.
According to Statista statistics portal, users of iOS in 2021 account for about 23% of the total 28 million Egyptian smartphone users.
