Facebook Cambridge Analytica Christopher Wylie — Transcript

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1. 0:00I want to ask you about professor Cogan
2. 0:02that the Cambridge University researcher
3. 0:04who created the personality test app
4. 0:05that harvested this data for Cambridge
5. 0:07analytic in russian-american do you
6. 0:09think any of the information he
7. 0:11collected went back to Russia
8. 0:12Christopher well what I do know is that
9. 0:17professor Cogan who managed this data
10. 0:20harvesting scheme of 50 million
11. 0:23Americans was going back and forth
12. 0:27between London and and and Russia
13. 0:29working at st. Petersburg University on
14. 0:31Russian funded programs to look at
15. 0:33psychological profiling and indeed
16. 0:35talking about you know the value of
17. 0:38social data in in in in political
18. 0:41targeting you know mean you know
19. 0:43meanwhile as we're talking to Lukoil
20. 0:45about the same program to me the my my
21. 0:49concern is that you know Cambridge
22. 0:51analytic huh whether whether I I'm not
23. 0:54saying that it did it intentionally but
24. 0:56III am concerned that we made Russia
25. 0:59aware of the programs that we were
26. 1:01working on and that might have sparked
27. 1:03an idea that that you know eventually
28. 1:06led to some of the disinformation
29. 1:08programs that we've seen in the the
30. 1:10interference that we've seen from from
31. 1:12Russia in American elections so so for
32. 1:15me I'm I'm concerned about that and if I
33. 1:18played some kind of role in that I feel
34. 1:20like it is my duty to tell people about
35. 1:22it which is why I'm talking to you