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2016 presidential campaign and the founding member of cambridge analytica. wylie has colorful described himself as the gay canadian vegan who somehow ended up creating steve bannon's psychological warfare mind expletive tool. i spoke to wylie and he explained how he came into contact with bannon and became the donor behind cambridge analytica and both were interested in weaponizing social data. >> i will say it was quite clear early on that steve bannon absolutely wanted to use it for republican candidates and the early projects that, you know, we started to apply the research to were, indeed,...

>> i think you can be. i've seen you give speeches. >> he and i together called for mark zuckerberg to testify before any of this blew up just because we thought all the tech executives should come before the judiciary committee and figure out what's going on with privacy and violations and then this happened and now he's coming. >> what is your top question for mark zuckerberg? what is the one answer you feel like he really needs to give, you and americans? >> how do you fix this? and this is really about 87 million people. we know lately in the last week found out it was 37 million more than...

Cambridge analytica's co founder is speaking out once again, suggesting the facebook personal data breach is far worse than has been reported this past week. so here's christopher wiley in a "meet the press" interview airing later this morning. >> do you believe the number, 87 million, is the high end or do you think that is still possible that number is much higher? >> i think that it could be higher. absolutely. there is, you know, a genuine, you know, a genuine risk that this data has been accessed by quite a few people. and that it could be store in various parts of the world. >> great. hi...

Bannon had been pushing his conservative message through breitbart news. bannon worked to move american voters to the right. in 2014 he helped launch the u.s. arm of cambridge analytica with the express purpose of using technology to push voters to his vision. cnn correspondent drew griffin helps us understand how he did it. >> reporter: he had produced propaganda-inspired films, run breitbart news. but in 2014, he was looking for yet another tool in his arsenal. and he found it by creating cambridge analytica. >> this was steve bannon can's baby. >> reporter: former cambridge analytica employ...

Scl's american arm, cambridge analytica, with $15 million from conservative donor robert mercy and his daughter rebecca. wiley says using psychographic data gathered from a facebook app, cambridge analytica targeted specific groups of people to try to influence them and push them to the right. >> it wouldn't always look like a campaign ad or wouldn't always say, you know, i'm candidate so and so, and i approve this message. you're not necessarily aware that actually what you're seeing is content that has been created and targeted at you to make you perceive an issue differently. >> reporter: t...