Christopher Wylie

It's very hard to participate in society when you can't talk to people on the medium that they talk to other people…

— 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…

— Christopher Wylie

We have a completely unregulated digital landscape. There is almost no oversight. We are placing blind trust in companies like Facebook to…

— Christopher Wylie

The thing that I realized in my journey as a whistleblower... is that the reaction that I got from a lot of…

— Christopher Wylie

Facebook knew in December 2015 that data had been harvested on Cambridge Analytica's behalf. It denied this until I came forward and…

— Christopher Wylie

You will be a far more effective whistleblower if you operate within a legal framework.

— Christopher Wylie

We need to change our mindset and understand that the protection of our democracy is a national security issue. When any country…

— Christopher Wylie

The power of data is being able to be much more efficient with who you target and who you talk to and…

— Christopher Wylie

I didn't fully appreciate the impact of what I helped create until 2016 happened. Very soon after that, I started working for…

— Christopher Wylie

I was asked by a journalist to sum up the story in a minute, and I was like, 'No.' It goes from…

— Christopher Wylie

Disinformation has always existed. It's not like all of a sudden we've just discovered this new thing called propaganda.

— Christopher Wylie

We have not effectively found a way to regulate, whether it's social media or the Internet, and really put safety measures in…

— Christopher Wylie

If we want to prevent another Cambridge Analytica from happening... that starts with regulating big tech beyond just data protection issues, but…

— Christopher Wylie

There are very tangible harms that come from manipulating people. In the United States, the public health response to Covid-19 has been…

— Christopher Wylie

Steve Bannon, you know, discovered that there's nothing more powerful than a humiliated man.

— Christopher Wylie

I've had people say, 'Oh you've made whistleblowing cool.' But it's really not. It's a good thing to do. And it's the…

— Christopher Wylie

When you talk to people in fashion, it's like, people wear clothes because it's who they are and what they like. It's…

— Christopher Wylie

What's different with Cambridge Analytica and more broadly with social media is that you are the target. People want to harvest your…

— Christopher Wylie

Amazon can afford to lose money for years on its fashion offerings. But when, if you're a designer or a retailer, fashion…

— Christopher Wylie

If you've done something wrong, the first step is to try to own up and tell people about it.

— Christopher Wylie

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

— Christopher Wylie

In most Western democracies, you do have the freedom of speech. But freedom of speech is not an entitlement to reach. You…

— Christopher Wylie

People are willing to do really ugly things if lots of other people are also doing them.

— Christopher Wylie

The alt-right didn't emerge from nowhere. There's a cultural foundation that existed beforehand that was almost like the petri dish and the…

— Christopher Wylie

When I saw how Russia was involved and pushing for Trump, I contacted the FBI. But at the time, they were confident…

— Christopher Wylie