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ZunZuneo Denounced in U.S. for Political Manipulation
ZunZuneo, the secret program run by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the target of denunciations today in the U.S., for its attempted political manipulation.
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ZunZuneo, the secret program run by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is the target of denunciations today in the U.S., for its attempted political manipulation.
According to an article that appeared in The Intercept, reported at the CubaDebate website, Western intelligence agencies are often involved in actions such as the so-called "Cuban Twitter" as they attempt to take advantage of the internet to create political discourse that responds to their interests.
The network Zunzuneo, as revealed last week in an investigative report from the Associated Press news agency, was designed to create a communications network disguised as an independently owned operation, said the statement.
Through this intelligence operation, private data was gathered from Cuban users without their knowledge, in the hopes of manipulating them to participate in dissent and undermine the government.
For projects such as these, Western intelligence agencies covertly use social media for propaganda, deception, mass messaging and the creation of false stories, the story highlighted.
Operations similar to ZunZuneo threaten the integrity of the Internet itself, as it is used to distribute subversive propaganda disguised as free speech and organization, the article concluded.
According to an article that appeared in The Intercept, reported at the CubaDebate website, Western intelligence agencies are often involved in actions such as the so-called "Cuban Twitter" as they attempt to take advantage of the internet to create political discourse that responds to their interests.
The network Zunzuneo, as revealed last week in an investigative report from the Associated Press news agency, was designed to create a communications network disguised as an independently owned operation, said the statement.
Through this intelligence operation, private data was gathered from Cuban users without their knowledge, in the hopes of manipulating them to participate in dissent and undermine the government.
For projects such as these, Western intelligence agencies covertly use social media for propaganda, deception, mass messaging and the creation of false stories, the story highlighted.
Operations similar to ZunZuneo threaten the integrity of the Internet itself, as it is used to distribute subversive propaganda disguised as free speech and organization, the article concluded.