The protests on 25 April made rounds in international press, but The Intercept’s Robert Mackey has focused on comparing the use of social media now to back in 2011. “Facebook is now so closely monitored by the security forces [it] prompted one leading activist to offer an online tutorial in how to use a new tool, the encrypted messaging app Signal, to help protesters find each other on the city’s streets, and stay one step ahead of the authorities,” wrote Mackey. “The heavy police presence wherever protests were planned seemed to indicate that the authorities can no longer be caught off guard by events organized on public social networks.” Mackey is one of the best known “open source” journalists in the U.S., piecing together news coverage from social media sources. He plied his trade at the New York Times throughout Egypt’s recent turmoil before moving to the Intercept.