Video of Large Crowd of Egyptians Protesting Is Outdated

A video recently went viral on social media platforms, allegedly showing a recent protest in Egypt. The video showed a massive crowd of people chanting, “The people want the fall of the regime.”

Jason Jay Smart, a political adviser who has lived and worked in Ukraine, shared the video on his X account and linked it to a recent phone call between the Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, which was focused on enhancing bilateral cooperation between the two countries.

Jason said in his tweet, “A day after ‘the Egyptian Foreign Minister held a phone call with his Russian counterpart, emphasizing the need to intensify political consultations at the ministerial level…’ Mass anti-government protests have begun in the Egyptian capital Cairo.”