A nonprofit, Psst, aims to help whistleblowers build strength in numbers.

b

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter.

The frenzied first days of Donald Trump’s return to the presidency have been accompanied by a flurry of leaks from bureaucrats in Washington. That has not made Trump—or his henchman Elon Musk—happy. “With regard to leakers,” Musk posted on X, “if in doubt, they are out.” A crackdown on one leaker could silence others. Enter Psst.org—a homophonically named nonprofit providing a secure depository for government employees and technology workers to share concerns about wrongdoing or mayhem. Psst began accepting submissions on Inauguration Day. “We’re probably going to be quite busy in the next four years,” Amber Scorah, one of the founders, said.

Psst was dreamed up by a group of three women—two in the United States, one in the United Kingdom—aiming to build a whistleblower-to-journalist pipeline. Each came at the problem a different way. Scorah had grown up as a third-generation Jehovah’s Witness in Vancouver, where she rarely made contact with outsiders; later, she left the community and spoke out against its restrictions. She went on to become the president of a whistleblower support organization, Lioness, which developed into a media outlet for first-person essays in the public interest. Her partner Rebecca Petras, a former journalist, most recently headed operations at the Signals Network, another nonprofit dedicated to sharing public interest...

Read Full Story: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMigAFBVV95cUxNY3ltbk5YREtBWC1oQ1hybnNp...