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04-08-2014, 08:51 PM
Chief of USAID Doesn't K**w Who Created 'Cuban Twitter'
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The chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said he's unsure who had the idea to create a Twitter-like social network in Cuba (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), a project his own agency funded.
In a heated exchange, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) pressed Rajiv Shah, the administrator of USAID, to tell him who was behind USAID's effort to fund and create ZunZuneo (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), a stripped-down social network marketed to Cubans that had the ultimate goal of stirring unrest in the Island
See also: The Internet in Cuba: 5 Things You Need to K**w (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/internet-freedom-cuba/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Leahy called the project a "cockamamie idea" and repeatedly asked Shah to explain whose idea it was to launch the project. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/usaid-cuban-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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The chief of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said he's unsure who had the idea to create a Twitter-like social network in Cuba (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter/?utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=), a project his own agency funded.
In a heated exchange, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) pressed Rajiv Shah, the administrator of USAID, to tell him who was behind USAID's effort to fund and create ZunZuneo (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), a stripped-down social network marketed to Cubans that had the ultimate goal of stirring unrest in the Island
See also: The Internet in Cuba: 5 Things You Need to K**w (http://mashable.com/2014/04/03/internet-freedom-cuba/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
Leahy called the project a "cockamamie idea" and repeatedly asked Shah to explain whose idea it was to launch the project. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/04/08/usaid-cuban-twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
More about Cuba (http://mashable.com/category/cuba/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Usaid (http://mashable.com/category/usaid/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Internet Freedom (http://mashable.com/category/internet-freedom/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), Us World (http://mashable.com/us-world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss), and Us (http://mashable.com/us/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/EoSV7EXG9TM