variants
or whistle-blowers
as in informants
a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing
there are laws to protect whistle-blowers who reveal corporate malfeasance
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Recent Examples of whistleblowers
Senior leaders allegedly set up roadblocks for whistleblowers, removing anonymity from the complaint process by insisting managers or attorneys be present at ODNI meetings, creating an atmosphere of intimidation.
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Ian Miller Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
22 June 2026
California, for example, passed a law requiring AI companies to issue risk frameworks, report safety issues and protect whistleblowers.
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Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
To Jordan Flowers, the executive director of the Disclosure Foundation, the film ably dramatizes what his organization has been trying to tell the general public ever since those modern whistleblowers started coming forward ten years ago.
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Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
19 June 2026
The film, which is expected to debut on Netflix in August, is based partly on the testimony of whistleblowers who reported numerous instances in which managers allegedly told safety monitors to overlook problems lest production be slowed.
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Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
19 June 2026
The source said both investigations have been ongoing for about a year, were launched by federal prosecutors in Sacramento based on information provided by whistleblowers in California, and were not the result of directives out of Washington.
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Taryn Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
An ex-con cybersecurity expert, Daniel is among a group of whistleblowers from the shady agency WARDEX who nabbed evidence of a massive, nearly 80-year cover-up that, if revealed, would be a turning point for civilization.
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Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
In 2023, after the House Oversight subcommittee on national security hosted hearings on UAPs with testimony from witnesses and whistleblowers, DeLonge took to Instagram to celebrate.
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Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
The forensic firm and the whistleblowers Alhambra also questioned McClitis about a forensic firm the union hired after internal charges were filed against Newton Jones in April 2023.
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Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2026
Ian Miller Outkick,
FOXNews.com,
22 June 2026
California, for example, passed a law requiring AI companies to issue risk frameworks, report safety issues and protect whistleblowers.
—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
21 June 2026
To Jordan Flowers, the executive director of the Disclosure Foundation, the film ably dramatizes what his organization has been trying to tell the general public ever since those modern whistleblowers started coming forward ten years ago.
—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
19 June 2026
The film, which is expected to debut on Netflix in August, is based partly on the testimony of whistleblowers who reported numerous instances in which managers allegedly told safety monitors to overlook problems lest production be slowed.
—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
19 June 2026
The source said both investigations have been ongoing for about a year, were launched by federal prosecutors in Sacramento based on information provided by whistleblowers in California, and were not the result of directives out of Washington.
—
Taryn Luna,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
An ex-con cybersecurity expert, Daniel is among a group of whistleblowers from the shady agency WARDEX who nabbed evidence of a massive, nearly 80-year cover-up that, if revealed, would be a turning point for civilization.
—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
9 June 2026
In 2023, after the House Oversight subcommittee on national security hosted hearings on UAPs with testimony from witnesses and whistleblowers, DeLonge took to Instagram to celebrate.
—
Britt Hayes,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
The forensic firm and the whistleblowers Alhambra also questioned McClitis about a forensic firm the union hired after internal charges were filed against Newton Jones in April 2023.
—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
28 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whistleblowers
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More recently, the Department of Justice charged the Southern Poverty Law Center — a civil rights nonprofit accused by Republicans of targeting conservatives in its work tracking extremists — with defrauding donors through payments to informants.
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Jordan cited accusations that paid informants associated with the organization’s former field-source program encouraged participation in extremist events while working undercover inside hate groups.
Noun
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One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.
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And so every regime invests in having student informers.
Noun
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That principle is why coal miners once brought canaries underground, as one emergency medicine doctor explained in a recent court declaration.
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These living materials could also serve as canaries in the coal mine for water safety, glowing brighter or dimming in the presence of specific toxins.
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