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The Onion: Facebook as a CIA project

c0pyr1gh7 · Comedy · 3 min · 2011 · YouTube title: Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network
Why it's here

HN commenters post it whenever surveillance or social-media privacy stories seem to confirm the joke, noting how prescient it looks.

What it covers

A short satirical Onion News Network segment presenting Facebook as a CIA project. It plays on surveillance and data-collection fears.