Re:Whistleblower: Google Boss' Daughter Scrubbed from Guardi...
by untog on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @10:05AM
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There are a lot of attempts to dismiss whistleblowers by attacking their "credibility" lately.
There is only one criteria to assess: is their report true? You assess this by investigating what they claim in their report. So far, what he's said has been entirely backed up by facts. His reason for blowing the whistle in the first place is irrelevant.
Re:Whistleblower: Google Boss' Daughter Scrubbed from Guardi...
by conjectures on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @09:08AM
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'No credibility' suggests that he was not telling the truth. However, the facts you point out would also be consistent with someone who was motivated by revenge to tell the truth.
>> In 2014, Wylie co-founded Eunoia Technologies[9][23] along with former SCL/Cambridge Analytica senior staff Brent Clickard, Mark Gettleson and Tadas Jucikas.[23] In describing his ambitions for developing Eunoia, Wylie stated, "I want to build the NSA’s wet dream".[23] Eunoia Technologies has been criticized for the similar psychographic profiling tactics used by Cambridge Analytica,[9][23] using the same dataset shared by Alexander Kogan.[9][23][24][25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Wylie#Eunoia_Techn...
So he basically accused Cambridge Analytica of doing what he then went on to do with his own firm. It's great that we learned all that shady business going on, but it's clear that Wylie's motives were not altruistic.