WASHINGTON (AP) — USAID’s secret Cuban Twitter program hired Alen Lauzan Falcon, a Havana-born satirical artist based in Chile, to propose text messages to be sent to Cuban users. Neither Lauzan nor the Cuban subscribers realized the U.S. government was behind ZunZuneo, the social media network.

Last Thursday, State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said “no political content was ever supplied by anyone working on this project or running it. It was the people — the Cuban people on the ground who were doing so.”