The website Cubadebate blames the U.S. government for the false rumours spread through Twitter on January 2nd, claiming that Revolution Leader Fidel Castro was dead. Around 100 “spam” messages per minute circulated on the topic, which Cubadebate believes could have only come from automated systems, given that accounts were opened and soon after hundreds of messages were sent, they were deleted.
According to Cubadebate, it is easy to conclude that Twitter, like many other U.S. Internet companies, is forced to comply with government policies even if it means violating at least two of its own user terms and conditions -- one of them against creating a series of accounts for abusive or prejudicial purposes and the other against spam.
Cubadebate also pointed out that 20 million dollars is spent annually by the U.S. Congress to pay among other things for Miami Twitters to incite subversion in Cuba.