Quotes from Christopher Wylie

When you talk to people in fashion, it's like, people wear clothes because it's who they are and what they like. It's as simple as that. It's just about creating a way of measuring that.

I didn't set out to attack Facebook. Facebook has just been incredibly uncooperative. It hasn't respected the role of the media and scrutiny and embraced this scrutiny and worked to improve itself.

It's very hard to participate in society when you can't talk to people on the medium that they talk to other people on.

A lot of people are concerned about, for example, the ability of big government to inhibit our liberties and choice. Big data can engineer a situation that limits our choice and our freedom. And it's not a partisan issue.

I've always been really interested in fashion, culture and visual arts in general: when I was growing up my parents half-expected me to go to art school, but I ended up working in Parliament, and then working in tech and data.

Amazon could also be the next Vogue, the next designer, the next WGSN.

When you work in Kenyan politics, or politics in a lot of African countries, if a deal goes wrong you can pay for it. When you work for senior politicians in a lot of these countries you don't actually make money in the electoral work, you make money in the influence brokering after that.

It's important that people see that you can be a whistleblower and you can be different.

At first it was interesting, we worked with the military to identify people susceptible to radicalization, but then Steve Bannon approached us and things changed. We renamed Cambridge Analytica, and we began to approach voters as much as potential terrorists.

Cambridge Analytica sought to identify mental vulnerabilities in voters and worked to exploit them by targeting information designed to activate some of the worst characteristics in people, such as neuroticism, paranoia and racial biases.

The United States is walking in the same direction as China, we're just allowing private companies to monetize left, right and center. Just because it's not the state doesn't mean that there isn't harmful impacts that could come if you have one or two large companies monitoring or tracking everything you do.

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

Vote Leave broke the law. I can say that out loud now. Vote Leave broke the law. But nothing happened.

I'm not going to be bullied by Facebook.

Disinformation has always existed. It's not like all of a sudden we've just discovered this new thing called propaganda.

There are not sufficient regulatory frameworks to handle the amount of power that companies like Facebook have, particularly in the United States.

I was asked by a journalist to sum up the story in a minute, and I was like, 'No.' It goes from Trump to Brexit to Russian espionage to military operations in Afghanistan to hacking the president of Nigeria. Where do you even begin?

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

I am accepting my share of responsibility in what happens with Cambridge Analytica. I think that Facebook should also accept some share of responsibility as to what happened.

I tell you, those old dudes who say, 'I don't care about fashion,' they're not going out in drag. Everyone cares about fashion.

I am a progressive Eurosceptic. I supported Leave.

You know, my concern is that even if Cambridge Analytica has dissolved as a company, its capabilities haven't.

One of the reasons why I'm speaking out is because I think that it's really concerning that no one has really investigated Cambridge Analytica and its role in the 2016 election.

One of the things that I learned about myself is that I can get involved in an idea and forget, in a really terrible way, what are the actual consequences of what I'm working on?