'I made Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool': meet the data war whistleblower - 2018-03-18

'I made Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool': meet the data war whistleblower March 18, 2018, Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian

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The first time I met Christopher Wylie, he didn't yet have pink hair. That comes later. As does his mission to rewind time. To put the genie back in the bottle.

By the time I met him in person, I'd already been talking to him on a daily basis for hours at a time. On the phone, he was clever, funny, bitchy, profound, intellectually ravenous, compelling. A master storyteller. A politicker. A data science nerd.

Two months later, when he arrived in London from Canada, he was all those things in the flesh. And yet the flesh was impossibly young. He was 27 then (he's 28 now), a fact that has always seemed glaringly at odds with what he has done. He may have played a pivotal role in the momentous political upheavals of 2016. At the very least, he played a consequential role. At 24, he came up with an idea that led to the foundation of a company called Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm that went on to claim a major role in the Leave campaign for Britain's EU membership referendum, and later became a key figure in digital operations during Donald Trump's election campaign.

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{{cite news | author = Carole Cadwalladr | title = 'I made Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool': meet the data war whistleblower | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump | work = The Guardian | date = March 18, 2018 | accessdate = May 5, 2019 }}