FB row whistleblower in TIME's 100 Most Influential People
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who exposed the Facebook data scandal, has been named in TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2018 list. Time's Executive Editor Matt Vella said Wylie's revelation of how Cambridge Analytica used social-media data to influence the US polls "sent Facebook reeling into a crisis." Wylie has crystallised people's anxiety around technology companies, he added.