111 Quotes by Christopher Wylie

For a long time I think journalists and society at large really did drink that Kool-Aid. They bought the message that the tech industry is good and they can do no wrong.

It's important that queer people get visibility, particularly when they look, act, and speak in the way that they're comfortable with.

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube create algorithms that promote and highlight information. That is an active engineering decision.

I got a call from the Lib Dems. They wanted to upgrade their databases and voter targeting. So, I combined working for them with studying for my degree.

The thing I think about all the time is, what if I'd taken a job at Deloitte instead? They offered me one. I just think if I'd taken literally any other job, Cambridge Analytica wouldn't exist. You have no idea how much I brood on this.

In politics, the money man is usually the dumbest person in the room.

The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted to really, in my view, attack our democracies.

We have a completely unregulated digital landscape. There is almost no oversight. We are placing blind trust in companies like Facebook to do the honorable and decent thing.

I got recruited to join a research team at SCL group which, at the time, was a British military contractor based in London. Most of its clients were various ministries of defense in NATO countries. And what we were looking at is how to use data online to identify people who would be likely targets of different extremist groups.