The three former Facebook employees who accused the tech behemoth of knowingly sacrificing the well-being of teenage girls and dangerously spreading disinformation to fuel its exponential growth and profit are just the latest in a parade of whistleblowers who have come forward over the past four years to prevent potential harm for public good.
I know the plights whistleblowers face firsthand from representing numerous employee truth-tellers across a range of issues. Imagine how many more immigrant women might have been subjected to unnecessary, nonconsensual gynecological procedures but for my client nurse Dawn Wooten blowing the whistle on alleged medical mistreatment at Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia, prompting the decision to end immigration detention at this facility.
Imagine how many more lives might have been unnecessarily lost to COVID-19 had Centers for Disease Control and Prevention whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright not spoken up about the Trump administration’s unwillingness to prepare for the pandemic and instead directed funds toward unproven, potentially dangerous drug therapies.
Imagine unrestrained efforts by then President Trump to solicit foreign interference in the 2020 election had the Ukraine whistleblower and Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman stayed silent about Trump’s apparent efforts to pressure the President of Ukraine to announce an investigation into then-candidate Joe Biden to harm the election bid of his political rival.
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Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said seven recent claims by US President Donald Trump about Iran were “false” and warned that the Strait of Hormuz “will not remain open” if th...