One of the best parts about the comical genius at The Onion is that sometimes their satire hits a little too close to home. Their recent video about Facebook being a CIA surveillance tool is funny but there’s likely a hint of reality in what they’re saying in it. “Congress today reauthorized funding for Facebook, the massive online surveillance program run by the CIA,” said Onion Factzone anchor Brooke Alvarez. The sheer mass of data that people willingly display about themselves publicly is very, very likely being used by both the US government and foreign governments around the world to gather…

Not everyone loves cat videos, but everyone watches cat videos. The animal is a natural for videos – they just do dumb or funny things regularly. As a result, the internet and YouTube viewers in particular are attacked by a constant onslaught of cat videos. Most believe that these videos come from average, everyday cat-owners who happen to be videotaping their pets often enough to catch the hilarity. The truth is revealed in the video below. From CGI to puppets, it’s all scripted. It’s all fake. We have been deceived. …