Spotify Wrapped is so last week!
This week, dive into your new favorite 2025 recap: 10 heinous things tech companies did to silence their employees this year! Part I is live on our Substack.
Read now, subscribe, and share—together, we can stop this madness! #TechAccountability #Whistleblowing
Help insiders keep us safe from AI and Big Tech harms.
Psst.org gives workers support, legal help, and safer paths to raise concerns. If you care about democracy, kids’ safety or how your data is used, this is one concrete way to help on #GivingTuesday. Add your $5:
www.every.org/psstorg-inc?...
🔔 New: Rowan Philp's piece for @gijn.org discusses how we’re collectivizing the act of whistleblowing. Raising red flags shouldn’t have to be a full-on hero’s journey. 🚩 That’s why we offer a secure way for tech/AI workers to flag a concern.
Read the full article here: gijn.org/stories/new-...
What’s the ROI on telling the truth in Big Tech/AI?
Professor @katekenny.bsky.social of @uniofgalway.bsky.social spent 15 years running the numbers—and the moral math doesn’t look great...
But she’s got ideas for changing it. 🔦
Full Q&A in our Substack (link below).
Did you read the WhatsApp whistleblower story out this week?
6 security engineers for 2.5 billion users? ~100,000 hacks/day? Meta pretending the whistleblower is the problem? (surprise surprise)
Here are the juicy details the NYT left out, in our newsletter:
psstpsst.substack.com/p/a-whatsapp...
We think leaders building AI have got this right: “it’s up to the people building AI to ensure it’s a force for the greater good.”
But we believe the definition of "greater good" has to involve the public. We can do this together.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...
Interesting glimpse into the human touch behind AI safety. While this info unfortunately came to us via an accidentally public Google Doc, imagine a world where AI insiders are empowered to share public interest information regularly.
That’s the reality we’re trying to create.
Psst.org featured in @wired.com today.
Tech workers: If you are seeing something and wondering if you should say something (or just need a gut-check or legal advice), read this article, and pass it on!
You aren't alone, and we can help you build strength in numbers.
by @vickiturk.bsky.social
Excited to be featured in WIRED Magazine @wired.com today!
Anyone seeing something and feeling the need to save something, visit us at @psst-org.bsky.social--you're in good hands!
⬇️ Breaking: Sen. Chuck Grassley introduces a bill aimed at protecting AI whistleblowers. It includes:
- Protections against employer retaliation
- Clear legal avenues to report AI safety risks
- Financial relief for employees who experienced retaliation
punchbowl.news/article/tech...
“It’s time to change the myth and the religion.”
- Carl Sagan
According to Paul Tudor Jones, tech leaders are stocking up apocalypse bunkers in fears that AI will overtake humanity.
We don’t enjoy bunkers, so we’re building safe, secure channels for AI insiders to warn us about danger before it happens. 🛖
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrES...
An underrated takeaway from this case - Apple staff is pressured from the very top of the organization to openly flout the rule of law.
OpenAI’s proposed restructuring would remove nonprofit control over AI development, threatening its mission to ensure AI benefits all humanity.
We've signed onto this letter to @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov + AG Kathy Jennings asking them to halt the restructuring. notforprivategain.org
Also... this:
All the things we would not know if not for a whistleblower* today:
* Sarah Wynn-Williams, Senate Oversight Committee on Meta’s ties to China (thread)
You’ve seen the @newyorker piece about The Knot’s fake brides? Well- this expose was a long time coming. Let us take you through the twists and turns of bringing it to light - allow us to share… (thread)
The fact that it took years for Psst whistleblowers to expose the alleged fraud at The Knot (as seen in this week's New Yorker) shows why sources need more support....and why holding the powerful to account takes a badass village (and the gaze 👀 of Sen. Grassley):
open.substack.com/pub/psstpsst...
Whistleblowers are always behind the scenes and protected under legal privilege with us until when (and if) they decide to go public.
Subscribe to this substack to join our movement to bring people together to put a check on the powerful!
Psst is coming to #RightsCon2025. Our Legal Director Jennifer Gibson will be joined by Ben Grazda (@accessnow.org), @telliotter.bsky.social (@wired.com), @sambiddle.com (@theintercept.com), and Gabriel Schubiner (@notechforapartheid.bsky.social).
If you'll be there, come say hi! ⬇️
The new trend in networking: whisper networking! 🤫
Find out how you can do it in @columjournreview.bsky.social today: www.cjr.org/politics/whi...
Got mayhem?
But imagine a central information bank run by a nonprofit, into which sources could put info that could be collated, such that one source wasn't talking to one journalist, not realizing another was speaking to another, when together there was a bigger picture...
Oh wait, there is! www.psst.org/safe
If you're a worker who is sitting on something you're concerned about, there's help out here!
