Cohen is CFR Adjunct Sr Fellow w/expertise in Terrorism & Counterterrorism, Iran, Technology & Innovation. In 2009 Cohen asked @Jack to delay Twitter maintenance to aid w/Iranian election. Was also key player in Arab Spring.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/world/middleeast/17media.html
Jared Cohen article.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. State Department under the leadership of Secretary Hillary Clinton continued a program to embolden foreign, revolutionary, social media activists to agitate for regime change in various parts of the world. The program arguably had major, detrimental consequences for the trajectory of the Middle East.-Sept.23,2016