The CIA marks its #twitterversary by joking about Tupac
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The CIA launched its Twitter account in June with a humorous post ("We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet"), and that lighthearted spirit continued on Monday. To celebrate its first month on Twitter, the CIA was kind enough to answer a few burning questions, with some apparently coming from the elderly and conspiracy theorists stuck in 1996:
Not everyone found the stunt funny:
Never mind the naysayers! If you think you've got what it takes to make jokes about Tupac, you're in luck!
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
