Facebook a Government Data-Mining Operation?

Word from the fringe is that Facebook is a data-mining operation brought to you by the spooks at the Total Information Awareness office. Why am I not surprised? According to the piece, they are aggregating the socio-political trends of the Facebook demographic. This made the rounds on Above Top Secret and this site has some good information linking a couple CIA corporate fronts to the popular social networking destination. It makes you wonder what the Dark Emperor Murdoch is doing with all of his MySpace info...