Who's the tech billionaire helping the Facebook whistleblower take on one of the world's most powerful companies? Meet eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.
by one measure, and in Washington it employs hundreds of people and has more than a dozen lobbying firms on retainer.But Omidyar is on that billionaire’s list too . And he has spent years channeling much of his wealth intoThat includes funding groups like the anti-monopoly think tankHis own network has also become increasingly involved in agitating against the major tech companies.
Haugen, who quit her post as a Facebook product manager in May, has distinguished herself from other Silicon Valley whistleblowers with her organized PR operation. It includes a collection of top Democratic operatives including Burton — whose firm Bryson Gillette is helping to run media relations for Haugen — and Ben Scott, a former tech adviser to Hillary Clinton who now works at Luminate.
Haugen first stirred public interest as an unidentified whistleblower who had provided a trove of internal Facebook documents that formed the basis for an
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