So if he says it will you believe it? i may have asked this question before, rhetorically.
(No sign so far of him discussing how this tracks with his own promotion of the Facebook philosophy; see below.)
WikiLeaks Founder Assange Blasts Facebook as ‘Most Appalling Spying Machine’
“Here we have the world’s most comprehensive database about people — their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives — all sitting within the United States, all accessible to U.S. intelligence,” he said. “Facebook, Google, Yahoo — all these major U.S. organizations have built-in interfaces for U.S. intelligence.”
Assange added, “It’s not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for U.S. intelligence to use.”