10 • MARCH 23, 2018
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Christopher Wylie—the 28-year-old Canadian vegan whistleblower who gave Donald Trump’s lawyers a new headache—is gay. Wylie is the source behind the explosive revelation about how Cambridge Analytica’s data mining scheme targeted 50 million unsuspecting potential voters on Facebook with personalized political advertising. The Trump connection runs through Steve Bannon, then editor of Breitbart News, who became a senior Trump campaign and administration adviser. Bannon learned about SCL Group’s work using psychological information in cyber warfare during international elections and brought the idea to hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who helped bankroll SCL Group’s subsidiary Cambridge Analytica, according to London-based The Observer. The Observer reporter Carole Cadwalladr describes Wylie as: “Clever, funny, bitchy, profound, intellectually ravenous, compelling. A master storyteller. A politicker. A data science nerd.” Additionally, Wylie claims he ended up creating “Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare mindf--k tool.” “We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people’s profiles. And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis that the entire company was built on,” Wylie said, who left Cambridge Analytica in 2014. He told Facebook about the misuse of their account information in 2016. The revelations prompted Facebook’s market value to drop $35 billion after Mark Zuckerberg was publicly accused of doing little to protect users’ privacy and doing nothing to get back or destroy the misused data. In a statement, Facebook said: “Protecting people’s information is at the heart of what we do, and we require the same from people who operate apps on Facebook.” – Karen Ocamb
“I love New York, and today I’m announcing my candidacy for governor.” —Bisexual actress Cynthia Nixon announcing on Twitter March 19 that she’s running for governor of New York.
“My nightly skin routine is pretty easy. Use a gentle cleanser, hydrating serum, check to make sure Stormy Daniels is raising enough money for her legal fees, and a night cream for glowing skin in the morning!” – Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon on Twitter March 19.
“My offer of employment to Mr. McCabe is a legitimate offer to work on election security.”
— Gay Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan on his job offer to deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by Attorney General Jeff Sessions 26 hours before McCabe’s retirement, thereby denying McCabe his pension.