[liberationtech] US created secret Twitter network in Cuba

2014-04-03 Thread Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes
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Re: [liberationtech] US created secret Twitter network in Cuba

2014-04-03 Thread Katy Pearce
I don't see why this is news. Many people and organizations on this list are working on similar projects, funded by AID. The framing of the article with Cuban Spring and all that was problematic. On Apr 3, 2014 6:09 AM, Andrés Leopoldo Pacheco Sanfuentes alps6...@gmail.com wrote: FYI

Re: [liberationtech] US created secret Twitter network in Cuba

2014-04-03 Thread Michael Rogers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 It's news because it was a covert project, which USAID supposedly doesn't engage in. There will be absolutely no mention of United States government involvement, according to a 2010 memo from Mobile Accord, one of the project's contractors.