A few weeks before last
year's
presidential election, Mitt Romney held a high -
profile meeting in North Carolina with the Reverend Billy Graham, patron saint of American Evangelicals.
According to documents obtained by BuzzFeed News and interviews with people who knew Wylie, the young data scientist was enthralled by the idea of a tool that
years later would be used to create detailed psychological
profiles of the US electorate ahead of the 2016
presidential election.