US Agency May Halt Undercover Democracy Work Like 'Cuban Twitter'

http://socialnetworkingnews.org/us-agency-may-halt-undercover-democracy-work-like-cuban-twitter/

The U.S. global development agency is preparing internal rules that would effectively end risky undercover work in hostile countries, such as the once-secret “Cuban Twitter” program it orchestrated, The Associated Press has learned.

The new policy follows an AP investigation this year into work by the U.S. Agency for International Development, which established a Twitter-like social network in Cuba and secretly sought to recruit a new generation of dissidents there while hiding ties to the U.S. government.

Source: gadgets.ndtv.com

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