Christopher Wylie

“We need to change our mindset and understand that the protection of our democracy is a national security issue. When any country interferes with your democracy, they are attacking you.”

“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.”

“It is categorically untrue that Cambridge Analytica has never used Facebook data.”

“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.”

“Cambridge Analytica's tactics contributed to a world where people kind of hate each other, and don't want to talk to each other, don't want to hear each other, don't want to speak to each other.”

“People are willing to do really ugly things if lots of other people are also doing them.”

“We have not effectively found a way to regulate, whether it's social media or the Internet, and really put safety measures in place. What happens if China becomes the next Cambridge Analytica? When it comes to this sort of new age of hostile foreign interference and the weaponization of information and propaganda online, there is no plan.”

“Conscientious people like structure, so for them, a solution to immigration should be orderly, and a wall embodied that.”

“The thing with Crocs and the Chanel dress, one is quick, fast and regrettable, the other is enduring and iconic.”

“Facebook, Twitter and YouTube create algorithms that promote and highlight information. That is an active engineering decision.”

“The alt-right didn't emerge from nowhere. There's a cultural foundation that existed beforehand that was almost like the petri dish and the growing medium for the alt-right.”

“I've been physically assaulted several times in the street. Somebody once pushed me into traffic. I've been followed into gay clubs, for example, where alt-right blogs would send photographers to take pictures of me. That has been not necessarily the easiest to deal with but, again, you start to actually just get used to it.”

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

“It's important that queer people get visibility, particularly when they look, act, and speak in the way that they're comfortable with.”

“Cambridge Analytica will try to pick at whatever mental weakness or vulnerability that we think you have and try to warp your perception of what's real around you.”

“Fashion and politics are almost the same industry, in many regards, because it's about identity, and it's cyclical, and people get really emotive about it.”

“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?”

“If you are looking to create an information weapon, the battle space you operate in is social media. That is where the fight happens.”

“You have all kinds - you know, you have the rise of extremist groups in the United States. It's just you don't call them that, right? You've got, you know, some very cultish followings and belief systems.”

“We should be challenging and reforming our legislation around the world to actually combat hostile actors, whether they're domestic or foreign.”