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

If I were to produce a kitchen appliance, I have to do more safety testing and go through more compliance procedures to…

— Christopher Wylie

You have all kinds - you know, you have the rise of extremist groups in the United States. It's just you don't…

— 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

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

— 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

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 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 you look at history, every major movement, the first thing they do is create an aesthetic. Think about the Nazis. Or…

— 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

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

— Christopher Wylie

It weighs on me that I played a pivotal role in setting up a company that I think has done a lot…

— Christopher Wylie

One of the things that I learned about myself is that I can get involved in an idea and forget, in a…

— Christopher Wylie

I've always been really interested in fashion, culture and visual arts in general: when I was growing up my parents half-expected me…

— Christopher Wylie

Cambridge Analytica sought to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and worked to exploit them by targeting information designed to activate some of…

— Christopher Wylie

I got a call from the Lib Dems. They wanted to upgrade their databases and voter targeting. So, I combined working for…

— Christopher Wylie

My real concern is what happens if China becomes the next Cambridge Analytica, what happens if North Korea becomes the next Cambridge…

— Christopher Wylie

We should be challenging and reforming our legislation around the world to actually combat hostile actors, whether they're domestic or foreign.

— Christopher Wylie

You know Facebook has this sort of bizarre culture of like really shunning people who raise legitimate concerns about how, you know,…

— Christopher Wylie

I'm sorry Alex Jones, but the content that InfoWars has been putting out is just flat out lies. You are entitled to…

— Christopher Wylie

What makes clothing so potent is that people incorporate the fashion that they're wearing into their identity. It becomes part of you…

— 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

I am a progressive Eurosceptic. I supported Leave.

— Christopher Wylie

I've never seen a billion dollars. I don't think anybody has.

— Christopher Wylie

I'm not going to be bullied by Facebook.

— Christopher Wylie

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

— Christopher Wylie

Manipulating an election in a small developing country doesn't have the same sort of ripple effect of electing Donald Trump into the…

— Christopher Wylie

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

— Christopher Wylie

I don't believe in data-driven anything, it's the most stupid phrase. Data should always serve people, people should never serve data.

— Christopher Wylie

Conscientious people like structure, so for them, a solution to immigration should be orderly, and a wall embodied that.

— Christopher Wylie

Fashion brands are really useful in producing algorithms to find out how people think and how they feel.

— Christopher Wylie

Fashion is very complicated for machines to learn - something that is intuitive for a human is usually the hardest thing to…

— Christopher Wylie

I don't think that military-style information operations is conducive for any democratic process.

— Christopher Wylie

We need new narratives in culture, and to do a better job of showing more diversity.

— Christopher Wylie

When you're, like, writing a Python script, it doesn't feel like you're doing something to someone. You just don't think, 'How could…

— Christopher Wylie

Different kinds of people have different motivations for filling out surveys. Sometimes you would have a group of people who just would…

— Christopher Wylie

With access to enough Facebook data, it would finally be possible to take the first stab at simulating society 'in silico.' The…

— Christopher Wylie

Cambridge Analytica will try to pick at whatever mental weakness or vulnerability that we think you have and try to warp your…

— Christopher Wylie

The United States is walking in the same direction as China, we're just allowing private companies to monetize left, right and center.…

— Christopher Wylie

You are being intentionally monitored so that your unique biases, your anxieties, your weaknesses, your needs, your desires can be quantified in…

— Christopher Wylie