CIA criticised for live-tweeting events of Osama bin Laden mission

The US Central Intelligence Agency has been criticised on social media after live-tweeting information from the 2011 mission which led to the death of Osama bin Laden.

Source: Twitter

The CIA marked the fifth anniversary of the capture and death of Osama bin Laden by posting several tweets which gave a play-by-play account of the US special-ops mission.

The tweets went through the events of the May 2, 2011 mission when Bin Laden was killed in a raid at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Reaction to the tweets have been largely negative on social media, with some calling the project "grotesque".