乐生活In 2014, the Associated Press disclosed that the USIAD of the United States Agency for International Development had done a two-year covert operation in Cuba. The article was called "The United States secretly created Cuban Twitter to cause confusion".
Cuban Twitter is called Zun Zuneo, an onomatopoeia for hummingbirds in the local language. The main body of action is the shell company of the United States Government, which is registered in Spain or the Cayman Islands and has a thorough relationship with the United States, "which is critical to the long-term performance of the service and the ultimate success of the mission".
With regard to the purpose of the operation, USAID stated that it would provide Cuba with basic humanitarian assistance, promote human rights and fundamental freedoms, and allow freedom of information to flow among the Cuban people.
According to documents obtained by the Associated Press, the United States initially attracted users by text messages, football music and entertainment news, as well as typhoon warnings. When the base is large enough, political topics should be introduced in time to "motivate Cubans to organize smart mobs", which means people who can organize at any time.
Twitter in Cuba lasted two years, with a peak of 40,000 users, but no one knew that the services they used came from American companies, let alone the U.S. government. When the Associated Press disclosed, the legality of the action was not confirmed in the United States. The top official traceable to the limited documents obtained by the Associated Press was a middle-level manager.
In addition to the suspected insurgency, USAID also collected a large number of Cuban information to analyze age, gender, openness and political orientation for future use.
The Cuban Twitter campaign began in 2009 with the arrest and imprisonment of a U.S. company employee who went to Cuba to set up a WiFi privately. It cost about $1.6 million and ended with the funding cut off. The result of Cuban Twitter was unsuccessful at that time. For users, the Twitter came and went inexplicably and bewildered as a chess piece and a test product.
