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Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
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[–] [email protected] 74 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Looks like the professor had set up the whistleblower, facebook, archive before they were fired:

https://fbarchive.org/

Since the endowment doesn't need the cash, I wonder what the person making the decision personally received as a payoff.

Edit: Here are the documents talking about the whistleblowing: https://whistlebloweraid.org/joan-donovan-disclosure-harvard-betrayed-academic-freedom-and-the-public-interest-to-protect-meta/