Julian Assange blasts Facebook as 'the most appalling spying machine ever invented' - 3rd May 2011

An official WikiLeaks page has attracted 1.72million 'likes' on Facebook.

But that hasn't stopped 'Leaks leader Julian Assange blasting the social networking site as 'the most appalling spying machine ever invented.'

In an interview with Russia Today Assange said Facebook was one of the top tools for the U.S. Government to spy on its citizens.

'Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations, their communications with each other and their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to U.S. Intelligence,' he said.

'Facebook, Google, Yahoo, all these major U.S. organisations have built-in interfaces for U.S. intelligence.

'Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook they are doing free work for the United States intelligence agencies,' he added.

A spokesman for Facebook denied the company was doing anything they weren't legally obliged to do, in an email to the New York Daily News. Read More