The US's Bizarre Plan to Destabilize Cuba with a Twitter Clone

[Ichingcarpenter]

Having once signaled a thawing of relations with Cuba, the Obama administration has since backpedaled. And now comes a rather strange tale in the US's long march to take down the Castro regime: Sometime in late 2009 or early 2010, the US government secretly launched a Twitter-like service whose goal was to gain as many Cuban users as possible before pushing them to dissent.

This comes via an AP report that's a rather fascinating read. According to the report, the service, dubbed "ZunZuneo," which is slang for a hummingbird's call, picked up "tens of thousands" of subscribers during its more than two years of operation. As you might expect, user data was collected in the hopes that it might prove politically valuable.

The project was spearheaded by the US Agency for International Development, which normal is focused on delivering aid to impoverished peoples worldwide. But it's also easy to forget that the internet is just as much a part of the mission to win hearts and minds as anything else. If you'll remember that another international outreach bureau spent $630,000 to buy Facebook likes for its pro-America pages, ZunZuneo shouldn't come as much of a surprise.


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The US using social media to destabilize countries?

No way dude.....LOL

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Naw. We're the good guys coming to the rescue...well...sort of...maybe...nevermind.

[Zorra]

2. Consolidating the Empire of the 1%, and doing everything possible to destabilize Venezuela

as well.

Anyone interested in getting a grasp on global megapolitical imperialism might find the essay below enlightening ~

The Seven Loose Pieces of the Global Jigsaw Puzzle

"The global power of the financial centers is so great, that they can afford not to worry about the political tendency of those who hold power in a nation, if the economic program (in other words, the role that nation has in the global economic megaprogram) remains unaltered. The financial disciplines impose themselves upon the different colors of the world political spectrum in regards to the government of any nation. The great world power can tolerate a leftist government in any part of the world, as long as the government does not take measures that go against the needs of the world financial centers. But in no way will it tolerate that an alternative economic, political and social organization consolidate. For the megapolitics, the national politics are dwarfed and submit to the dictates of the financial centers. It will be this way until the dwarfs rebel . . ."

Ain't that America