Many details about PRISM and related cyberintelligence initiatives, including
Tempora and XKeyScore, are still unknown by the public, though news coverage following June 6, 2013 was thorough and steady.
For the first time since 2009, the U.S. national newspaper USA Today reported on government surveillance on its front page,and The Washington Post ran a front-page article on the invasion of privacy for the first time in 2013,16 prompting contentious discussion of the revelations among privacy experts, as well as politicians and advocates, worldwide.