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Former President Donald Trump’s Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, fired its senior vice president of operations Will Wilkerson after he blew the whistle on the company to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the...

Over the past several years, whistleblowers have filed detailed disclosures outlining the ways in which Facebook auto-generates contents for extremist groups on its site. Despite whistleblowers’ repeated warnings, Facebook is still auto-generating content for banned extremist groups such as the...

This article is the second in the WNN series investigating FOIA documents from the SEC about the agency's whistleblower program. The first article outlined Big Law’s newfound involvement in the SEC program. Read it here. In response to a Freedom...

Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveal that large “Big Law” corporate law firms are confidentially or quietly representing whistleblowers in whistleblower reward cases filed under the highly successful...

This article is the third in the WNN series investigating FOIA documents from the SEC about the agency’s whistleblower program. The first article outlined Big Law’s newfound involvement in the SEC program and the second explained how the SEC data...

In an exclusive article, Whistleblower Network News (WNN) recently revealed, for the first time, that large corporate defense firms have represented whistleblowers who have received awards through the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Whistleblower Program. In a new piece...

On August 26, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted 3-2 to approve two rule changes to its highly successful whistleblower program. The changes are meant to better incentivize whistleblowers and were described by one leading whistleblower attorney as...

On August 26, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced two rule changes to further refine and incentivize whistleblowing through their highly successful whistleblower program. The proposed changes were first introduced in February 2022. First, the SEC modified Rule...

In recently filed whistleblower complaints, Peiter Zatko, Twitter’s former head of security, alleges that the company deceived regulators, investors, and its own board of directors about “extreme, egregious deficiencies” in its cybersecurity defenses. Zatko, a hacker known as “Mudge,” served...

A recent article by Bloomberg Law attacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) highly successful whistleblower program has led to a series of rebuttals by whistleblower and anti-fraud advocates. Following an article by the whistleblower attorneys of Kohn, Kohn...