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Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network

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Satire & parodyPrivacy, surveillance & cybercrime

What it is

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.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2012, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “I love this The Onion video”

    Onion news report satirizing Facebook as a CIA project

    agota, 2019-10 · Recommendation · in “Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft”

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Topics: the onion, facebook, cia, privacy, satire

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