MIA Accuses Governments Of Spying On Facebook & Google Users
Saturday, 29 May 2010
Written by Nigel Sachdev
'Born Free' singer M.I.A has warned fans that she believes the US government agency CIA are secretly behind social networking site Facebook, and search engine Google.
According to M.I.A the government are watching all user actions on the social networking behemoth Facebook.com, which has over 400 million users worldwide, and the US government operate an Orwellian access to information on the search giant. Baffling stuff! We couldn't make it up.
The 34-year-old star, who caused uproar surrounding her video for latest single 'Born Free', which depicted the torture and death and "the ginger race", told Nylon Magazine: "Anybody who is called the government is right. And anybody who isn’t called the government is not right... All governments are connected to Google, and all governments can shift their search engines so only what they want you to see comes up. I want kids to be aware of this digital circumstance."
"Everyone on the Internet is like, 'Oh my God, come and join Facebook!' They're all so optimistic. and really, everyone is f**king you up behind the screens. And I don't like that. It makes it difficult for me to interact with my fans knowing that. Google and Facebook were developed by the CIA, and when you're on there, you have to know that."
Meanwhile M.I.A has caused further controvery after publishing the private phone number of New York Times journalist Lynn Hirschberg.
The singer posted the number on her twitter account after the newspaper ran with an unfavourable profile article on her at nytimes.com.
M.I.A. said: "CALL ME IF YOU WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT THE N Y T TRUTH ISSUE, ill b taking calls all day bitches ;)", adding "NEWS IS AN OPINION! UNEDITED VERSION OF THE INTERVIEW WILL BE ON neetrecordings THIS MEMORIAL WEEKEND!!!"
Hirschberg told The New York Observer: "I find it kind of interesting that she would cast the spotlight on the story in any way, shape or form."
The journalist described the posting of her private number as "infuriating" and added: "It's a fairly unethical thing to do, but I don't think it's surprising. She's a provocateur, and provocateurs want to be provocative."
She added, "The messages have mostly been from people trying to hook up with M.I.A.".
So there we have it folks. Watch your back!
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