Christopher Wylie: ‘Real war is being fought online’

Among the world's most influential people in 2018, positioned among heads of state and billionaire entrepreneurs, is an introverted 29-year-old with bright pink hair. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wiley exposed the deep links between alternative right-wing networks and Kremlin agents roughly a year ago, yet he is still the subject of countless security threats and intimidation.
"There has not been a single day where I have regretted it," he states with pride in an exclusive interview with Kathimerini in the context of this year's Delphi Economic Forum. "Before my revelations, Russian propagandists functioned in plain sight and regulators could not even realize it," he adds, while explaining in detail how Cambridge Analytica algorithms hijacked democracy and impacted the Brexit referendum and the US presidential elections.
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