[lotsofmangos]

I like Stewart Lee's take on it.

"a government surveillance operation run by gullible volunteers, a Stasi for the Angry Birds generation”

[tomjen3]

That is a rip of of the Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatic...

[lotsofmangos]

Is a different take on a similar joke - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XpvH-j9BHg

The idea that social networks are useful for surveillance and the joke that the users are just useful idiots, massively predates the onion sketch as well though.