Books, movies and television are taking a page from politics and making it a big moment for whistleblowers. In his book, Mr. Wylie describes growing up gay with a medical condition that confined him to a wheelchair during high school. “He has an ax to grind.”The Cambridge Analytica controversy revolves around whether the British consulting firm improperly obtained and exploited user data from Facebook. That ambiguity is at play in “Targeted,” the memoir by Ms. Kaiser, former business-development director at Cambridge Analytica. Brittany Kaiser, a former Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower, gave evidence at the House of Commons in London in 2018.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 20, 2019 13:18 UTC