U.S. Secretly Built Cuba's Twitter Clone to Spark Unrest, the AP Reports

Even tried to recruit Jack Dorsey

A Cuban Twitter clone that once counted tens of thousands of users on the small Communist island was actually a U.S. plot to manufacture dissent there, according to an Associated Press report.

Cuba’s version of Twitter, known as ZunZuneo, was launched secretly in 2009 by the U.S. Agency for International Development, which went through elaborate lengths to hide the service’s true origins, according to the AP.

At one point, the U.S. even tried to recruit Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey to help the effort, according to the report.

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