Christopher Wylie remarks at Senate hearing on Facebook power, denials

Former Cambridge Analytica research director Christopher Wylie tells members of the Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing on data privacy that Facebook knew of the firm's data breach since 2015 before the story broke, threatening to sue the Guardian and banning him for responding on behalf of the British government which the UK secretary of state for culture called outrageous, and unrestrained power technology companies could exercise when a person's entire online presence could so quickly and thoroughly be eliminated from existence without a check on power that raised serious questions of what happens to democracy when companies can delete people, that Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to cooperate with a British inquiry field the challenge countries face, that the scandal had exposed social platforms were no longer safe for users and are a critical part of American cyberspace, not to walk into the future blind.