Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network

I love this The Onion video that is a news report on the CIA's most successful project ever, Facebook: ▶ this video

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

Plot twist: The onion becomes the CIA project that fools people on using Facebook, another CIA project: ▶ this video

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.

The Onion's parody on Facebook's CIA ownership is now sounding eerily accurate. For those who haven't seen it: ▶ this video

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.