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by ls-lah_33 1831 days ago
The US government once made a microblogging service called ZunZuneo [1] for Cuba in an attempt to encourage political change there. It failed to achieve its intended outcomes, but is nevertheless quite interesting because the it shows that the US government is well aware of how electronic media has great potential for exerting political influence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZunZuneo