For more than a year we’ve been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the UK and Team Trump in the US presidential election. Now,28-year-old Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorateThe first time I met Christopher Wylie, he didn’t yet have pink hair. That comes later. As does his mission to rewind time. To keep the genie back in the bottle.
By the time I met him in person, and I’d already been talking to him on a daily basis for hours at a time. On the phone,he was intelligent, droll, and bitchy,profound, intellectually ravenous, and compelling. A master storyteller. A politicker. A data science nerd.Alexander Nix,CEOIt showed these odd patterns. People who liked 'I disapprove Israel' on Facebook also tended to like KitKatsIf you do not respect the agency of people, anything you do after that point is not conducive to democracyFacebook has denied and denied this. It has failed in its duties to respect the law Related: The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com