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In September of 2020, data scientist Sophie Zhang posted an internal farewell memo after being fired from Facebook. Her memo, first reported on by BuzzFeed News, detailed what she found online while working on the “Facebook Site Integrity fake engagement...

Federal employee whistleblowers are essential safeguards to misconduct which threatens democracy, public health, the environment, taxpayer funds, and civil rights. Federal employees are in the unique position to expose abuses of authority and violations of law at the highest levels...

Now that whistleblowing has become an everyday happening, more attention is turning to figuring out why only some people speak up while most others don’t. Amherst College psychology Professor Catherine Sanderson began delving into the question after a tragedy that...

New statistics obtained by Whistleblower News Network (WNN) expose the harm federal whistleblowers must endure because the administrative board tasked with ruling on their cases has lacked a quorum for over four years. The lack of a quorum means that...

Freelance journalist, activist, and artist Jed Alexander recently interviewed FBI whistleblower Jane Turner of WNN about her work as a special agent and her experience blowing the whistle on the cover-up of child sex crimes on the Fort Berthold Indian...

Longtime U.S. Representative Alcee Hastings of Florida has passed away, his office confirmed on April 6. Hastings was the first African American Representative elected to Congress in Florida since the Reconstruction period and was serving his fifteenth term in the...

Dr. Umesh Prabhu was a long way from his home in the small village of Palimar on India’s Arabian Sea coast when he arrived in the UK in 1982 with £300 in his pocket. Little did he know that he...

Johánnes Stefánsson is the key figure in the Fishrot scandal, a wide-reaching exposé that has resulted in the resignation of multiple Namibian government officials. The scandal revolves around the payment of bribes from an Icelandic fishing company, Samherji, to government...

Blowing the whistle on corporate wrongdoing often leads to employee firings, lawsuits, and a lot of bad blood between management and labor. Arbitrator Alan Levy has seen it all in his almost 30 years of negotiating mediation and arbitration settlements...