Secret ‘Cuban Twitter’ project racked with problems

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A “Cuban Twitter” program developed by the U.S. Agency for International Development as a covert way to foment revolution among the country’s youth was racked with problems, the agency’s inspector general found.

The $15.5 million project, along with an HIV/AIDS workshop that was actually a secret way to recruit anti-government activists, was “designed to conceal funding sources,” the watchdog said in a report made public Wednesday.

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