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
After hearing from victims and whistleblowers, the House intelligence committee started looking into complaints that the CIA and other agencies withheld medical treatment for the officers affected.
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Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
Multiple whistleblowers alleged that DOGE uploaded a highly sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) database to an unmonitored cloud environment, according to a report by Senate Democratic staff.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
David Mackenzie, 112 minutes The great Riz Ahmed stars as a fixer who brokers deals between corporations and whistleblowers, usually keeping the identity of the latter secret through an old-fashioned relay system.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Updates include expanding limits on pardon power, new provisions regarding the dismissal of criminal prosecutions, strengthening congressional subpoena enforcement and asserting lawmakers' power of the purse and protecting whistleblowers.
—Isabella Murray, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2025
Not long after the allegations were made public, all seven whistleblowers had either resigned or been fired.
—Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
The hearing featured testimony from multiple witnesses described as whistleblowers with experience in military UAP incidents.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
Continue reading … SAFETY GAPS – Hawley pushes legal action against Meta after whistleblowers detail child abuse in VR.
—FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That includes laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, gender, and other classifications and laws protecting whistleblowers from retaliation.
—Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
Multiple whistleblowers alleged that DOGE uploaded a highly sensitive Social Security Administration (SSA) database to an unmonitored cloud environment, according to a report by Senate Democratic staff.
—Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
David Mackenzie, 112 minutes The great Riz Ahmed stars as a fixer who brokers deals between corporations and whistleblowers, usually keeping the identity of the latter secret through an old-fashioned relay system.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2025
Updates include expanding limits on pardon power, new provisions regarding the dismissal of criminal prosecutions, strengthening congressional subpoena enforcement and asserting lawmakers' power of the purse and protecting whistleblowers.
—Isabella Murray, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2025
Not long after the allegations were made public, all seven whistleblowers had either resigned or been fired.
—Kimberly Ross, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
The hearing featured testimony from multiple witnesses described as whistleblowers with experience in military UAP incidents.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2025
Continue reading … SAFETY GAPS – Hawley pushes legal action against Meta after whistleblowers detail child abuse in VR.
—FOXNews.com, 10 Sep. 2025
That includes laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, gender, and other classifications and laws protecting whistleblowers from retaliation.
—Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whistleblowers
Noun
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Privacy advocates have expressed concern that the company’s cameras and accompanying Neighbors app have heightened the risk of racial profiling and turned residents into informants, with few guardrails around how law enforcement can use the material.—
Annie Palmer,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
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Sanders had uncovered in 2014 that Rackauckas’ prosecutors and sheriff’s deputies for years had illegally used jailhouse informants to coax confessions from defendants who had attorneys, in violation of their right to counsel.—
Tony Saavedra,
Oc Register,
30 Sep. 2025
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This approach sparks a heated debate about proper justice, leading to the revelation of other secret desires between the two spies.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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Gary Oldman stars as the curmudgeonly Jackson Lamb, who leads MI5, a unit full of low-level spies that includes Jack Lowden’s River Cartwright.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Whistleblowers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whistleblowers. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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