Former Egypt president Mohamed Morsi died on Sunday at a hospital after collapsing at a court. He died years after being overthrown by his defence minister and now president of the country Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Sisi, has waged an ongoing crackdown that has seen thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters jailed and hundreds facing death sentences.
Reports have surfaced that a government official whatsapped news of Morsi's death to media houses across the country.
According to a foreign journalist "Virtually all newspapers in Egypt ran the same 42-word story on the death of Mohammed Morsi. It was WhatsApped to news editors by a govt official".
An Arabic language TV channel had to face embarrass when its anchor while reading from a teleprompter ended her report :"Sent from a Samsung device".
The video has gone viral on the internet, with people questioning freedom of press in Egypt.