agotaOct 2019Recommends
I love this The Onion video that is a news report on the CIA's most successful project ever, Facebook: ▶ this video
in “Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft” · View on HN
Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network
Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2012–2023.
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A short satirical Onion News Network segment presenting Facebook as a CIA project. It plays on surveillance and data-collection fears.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters post it whenever surveillance or social-media privacy stories seem to confirm the joke, noting how prescient it looks.
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“I love this The Onion video”
What HN commenters said
6 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
berkle4455Jul 2023Cites it
I agree, but there are hundreds if not thousands of AI startups trying to make their own relevant LLM, and they're going to be scraping Twitter. The Onion called it many years ago [1]: "400 billion tweets and not one useful bit of data was ever transmitted". [1] ▶ this video
in “Twitter Is DDOSing Itself” · View on HN
nickpsecurityJan 2017Cites it
My impression is that a Never Collect Data Usable Against Minorities Pledge shouldn't be signed by people supporting exactly that to tune of billions of dollars and nearly as many users under surveillance. Unless they're full of shit. Hell, even The Onion saw how helpful such companies are: ▶ this video I remember watching it knowing it was satire but most of the benefits were still true. I bet the people against discrimination and such at those locations are still coding away at the algorithms and data stores to make it happen. Easier to put your name on something than to make real sacrifices. Do email me, though, when a story pops up that Google or Facebook got rid of all saved data that could be used to hurt unpopular groups all thanks to such people in the company.
in “Sergey Brin joins protest against immigration order at SFO” · View on HN
ender7Jan 2012Cites it
Once again, the Onion got there first. ▶ this video I will start worrying when companies are legally required to let the FBI trawl through the databases without a warrant. It's hard to make a law against scraping public information.
in “FBI to monitor Facebook, Twitter, Myspace” · View on HN
zerostar07Jul 2018Joke
Plot twist: The onion becomes the CIA project that fools people on using Facebook, another CIA project: ▶ this video
in “No Joke: The Onion Faces Layoffs by Univision, Says Report” · View on HN
theatraineJun 2013Joke
The Onion's parody on Facebook's CIA ownership is now sounding eerily accurate. For those who haven't seen it: ▶ this video
in “Thousands dead, millions deprived of civil liberties? (2001)” · View on HN