NetBlocks metrics show that communications platforms WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and as well as some Telegram servers are disrupted on government-owned ETECSA (Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba, S.A. / AS27725) including Cubacel, the cellular network operated by Cuba’s sole telecommunications company. Findings corroborate user reports of disruptions to the services.
But unlike we poor users of the actual Gringo Twitter the US govt once created a Cuban Twitter so people could communicate.
US secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest and undermine government. This article is more than 7 years old. USAid started ZunZuneo, a social network built on texts, in hope it could be used to organize ‘smart mobs’ to trigger Cuban spring