Who is Christopher Wylie, the guy giving Facebook headaches? — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:01Cambridge analytical was founded on
3. 0:04misappropriated data of at least 50
4. 0:06million Facebook users they had apps on
5. 0:23Facebook that were given special
6. 0:26permission to harvest data not from just
7. 0:30the person who used the app or joined
8. 0:32the app but also it would then go into
9. 0:35their entire friend network and pull out
10. 0:38all of the friends data as well this
11. 0:43data was used to create profiling
12. 0:47algorithms that would allow us to
13. 0:49explore mental vulnerabilities of people
14. 0:52and then map out ways to inject
15. 0:57information into different in different
16. 0:59streams or channels of content online so
17. 1:02that people started to see things all
18. 1:03over the place that may or may not have
19. 1:05been true
20. 1:20[Music]
21. 1:22this was the weapon that Steve Bannon
22. 1:26wanted to build to fight his culture war
23. 1:32[Music]
24. 1:38[Music]
25. 1:45and I've offered and I've offered and
26. 1:47offered and offered to help Facebook
27. 1:49they turn around and without telling me
28. 1:51banned me from their system after they
29. 1:53realized that I was going public about
30. 1:55this matter