Tech whistleblowers who exposed Big Tech harms in 2019 face million-dollar debts, job loss, professional exile in Silicon Valley; Facebook's ex-election integrity head among those with no regrets despite career unraveling

Tech whistleblowers face million-dollar debts, job loss and isolation

Democracy Dies in DarknessBy exposing the harms of Big Tech, many whistleblowers say they faced poorer job prospects and professional exile in Silicon Valley. They have no regrets.December 15, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. ESTToday at 5:00 a.m. ESTYael Eisenstat, Facebook’s former head of election integrity, alleged in a 2019 op-ed that the social media platform allowed political operatives to mislead the public with sophisticated ad-targeting tools. (Washington Post illustration; Photos by The Post and Ric...