Cambridge Analytica co-founder Christopher Wylie opens up — Transcript

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1. 0:11more now on the news that Facebook
2. 0:13failed to protect the information of
3. 0:15millions of its users a former Cambridge
4. 0:18analytic research director sounded the
5. 0:21alarm on the harvesting of information
6. 0:23from millions of Facebook users without
7. 0:25their permission
8. 0:26he spoke with our Charlie d'Agata in
9. 0:29London about who he thinks is to blame I
10. 0:32take a share of responsibility in this
11. 0:34because I was a research director and
12. 0:37you know I I worked on this program so
13. 0:39I'm gonna start by saying I'm taking
14. 0:41responsibility I'm owning up this is why
15. 0:44I'm talking to you in terms of other you
16. 0:49know who else needs to take
17. 0:51responsibility cambridge analytically it
18. 0:54funded the program it approved the
19. 0:55program and you know it it you know as
20. 0:59an entity it create this is this is what
21. 1:01ultimately became the foundation of what
22. 1:03cambridge analytic is so of course
23. 1:06cambridge analytic had needs to take
24. 1:08responsibility for this you know
25. 1:10facebook i I last week offered to help
26. 1:14Facebook and work with Facebook and
27. 1:16their lawyers confirmed that they wanted
28. 1:18to work in a collaborative manner when
29. 1:21all of this came out I then got banned
30. 1:24you know they they decided that actually
31. 1:27the whistleblower is the person that
32. 1:28they want to apparently go after and
33. 1:30they you know deleted my existence off
34. 1:33of Facebook and Instagram because
35. 1:36apparently you know me going on
36. 1:38Instagram and looking at curated
37. 1:39pictures of avocado toast is somehow a
38. 1:42threat to their their user community but
39. 1:46yeah they they shut you down they shut
40. 1:49me down and this was after I had spoken
41. 1:52and my lawyers had spoken with them and
42. 1:54we agreed that we were going to
43. 1:56collaborate on this issue you know in in
44. 1:59in in in a cooperative manner I am NOT
45. 2:03out to attack Facebook I think Facebook
46. 2:05still brings a lot of value you know not
47. 2:08just to social networks but also to the
48. 2:10democratic process as a platform that we
49. 2:11can engage and talk about
50. 2:13there's obviously you know a lot of
51. 2:15issues that need to be discussed and
52. 2:17thought through in terms of you know its
53. 2:19its role in you know the information
54. 2:22battle space that we that we see you
55. 2:25know emerging now in in modern politics