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Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 8:45 pm
The White House confirms a US government aid agency was behind a text-message service that was allegedly designed to foment unrest in Cuba.
ZunZuneo, dubbed a "Cuban Twitter", had 40,000 subscribers at its height in a country with limited web access, reports the Associated Press.
The project is said to have lasted from 2009-12 when the grant money ran out.
The US reportedly hid its links to the network through shell firms and by routing messages via other countries.
There has been no official Cuban government reaction to the story.