Chris Wylie – Hero or Traitor?.

Chris Wylie – Hero
or Traitor?

Introduction
• Christopher Wylie is a Canadian who used to
work as a data consultant in Cambridge
Analytica.
• Cambridge Analytica refers to a firm that
carried out the work of provisioning political
consultation (Gordon 2019).
• The firm had been opened by Alexander Nix.
• In the year of 2018, he laid down documents
that was referred to as the Facebook-
Cambridge Analytica.

Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
• This is a major political scandal that had
occurred in the year of 2018.
• The scandal was all about an accusation
that Cambridge Analytica had harvested
data from millions of Facebook profiles
without the consent of owners (Laterza
2018).
• This had led Facebook to suffer huge
depreciation within the prices of the
stock.
• The first instance of data harvesting by
Cambridge Analytica was observed in the
year of 2015.

Actions of Chris Wylie
• On 18th march, in the year of 2018, Chris Wylie was
interviewed by “The Observer” making revelations of
his work time in Cambridge Analytica.
• He acted as a whistleblower at that particular time
giving up any information regarding what activity had
been carried out in Cambridge Analytica (Cadwalladr
and Graham-Harrison 2018).
• Wylie admitted of being the primary source who was
anonymous behind this whole scandal.