Christopher Wylie Senate hearing exchange on cyber warfare danger of social media

Delaware Senator Christopher Coons asks former Cambridge Analytica Research Director Christopher Wylie at a Senate Judiciary Committee at a hearing on data privacy about aggressive actions and the threat to 2018 election if an entire data set and algorithms were in the hands of Russian intelligence, Wylie answering that testing on Russian expansionism and Vladimir Putin were dangers not just for American democracy but around the world because data is powerful in the wrong hands becomes a weapon, that Facebook or Twitter are not just social networking sites but opportunities for information warfare by state and nonstate actors, so to protect cyberspace as a national security issue in the same way agencies protect borders, land, sea and air.