'As secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton pushed for many such programs around the world, noting the success of social media in organizing protests in Egypt and Tunisia.
'The documents cited by The A.P., which it did not separately publish, made clear that contractors working on the Cuba project wanted to keep their telephone database confidential.
'The State Department has long viewed text messaging as a potential instrument of so-called street diplomacy, especially after it was widely used in Iran in 2009 to organize protests against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president.'
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