Her name is Joan Donovan and she was (maybe still is?) considered one of the country’s leading experts on internet misinformation. But in 2023 she lost her staff job at Harvard’s Kennedy School and subsequently filed a whistleblower complaint that was hundreds of pages long.
The gist of her complaint is that the power and money of Facebook/Meta had pushed her out of her job after a specific confrontation that took place at a public event in October 2021. Here’s Donovan herself explaining what happened to her.
For those closely following Dr Joan Donovan’s whistleblower complaint on her shutdown at Harvard around Zuckerberg’s half BILLION$ donation, she just bravely testified on “Tech Giants’ Current and Ongoing Use of Intimidation and Subversion Tactics to avoid Regulation.” /1 pic.twitter.com/58eC2Mo52F
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) December 14, 2023
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