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A book street vendor passes the time on her smart phone as she waits for customers in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The Obama administration secretly financed a social network in Cuba to stir political unrest and undermine the country’s communist government according to an Associated Press investigation. The project, dubbed "ZunZuneo," slang for a Cuban hummingbird’s tweet, lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers and sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. First, the network would build a Cuban audience, mostly young people; then, the plan was to push them toward dissent.  (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A book street vendor passes the time on her smart phone as she waits for customers in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. The Obama administration secretly financed a social network in Cuba to stir political unrest and undermine the country’s communist government according to an Associated Press investigation. The project, dubbed "ZunZuneo," slang for a Cuban hummingbird’s tweet, lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers and sought to evade Cuba’s stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. First, the network would build a Cuban audience, mostly young people; then, the plan was to push them toward dissent. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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