ExposeFacts
Description
ExposeFacts is a project for whistleblowers, journalism and democracy. It works to bring greater civic transparency to government and corporate secrecy. One of its key goals is to put whistleblowing at the center of public consciousness. It does this by widely seeking documentation of official actions that cannot withstand public scrutiny and by openly facilitating the release of such information, in order to support and strengthen journalism that is methodical, uncompromising, accurate and independent.
ExposeFacts is run by the Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA), a nonprofit dedicated to public education based in Washington, DC. IPA has worked for more than fifteen years to supply media outlets with information and analysis. It provides in-kind support, staffing and working relationships with many media organizations and independent journalists for ExposeFacts.
The Freedom of the Press Foundation has provided major assistance to IPA, donating secure-communications software, installation, training in security best practices and long-term consultation. This has allowed ExposeFacts to operate with vetted secure technology. IPA’s roster of several thousand experts, built since the late 1990s, gives ExposeFacts a wide range of knowledge in areas such as intelligence, the military, diplomacy, government surveillance, civil liberties, banking, Wall Street abuses, corporate wrongdoing and whistleblowing. It uses this knowledge to assess incoming documents and to connect journalists with relevant experts for interviews.
ExposeFacts is guided by an editorial board and a larger advisory board made up of journalists, authors, former intelligence officials and whistleblowers, including Daniel Ellsberg, William Binney, Thomas Drake and Coleen Rowley. It also runs WHISPeR, a related project. ExposeFacts is based in Oakland, California.
Latest news
Federal whistleblowers illegally fired after exposing ‘chaos’ at Trump’s HUD
by Maximillian Alvarez: The Real News Network Last week, The Real News Network published a bombshell interview with two federal whistleblowers working in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke with Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan, two...
1 Oct 2025How to Leak Under the Trump Administration
By Nikita Mazurov: The Intercept Want to expose wrongdoing in the U.S. government? Take these steps to keep yourself safe.
28 Feb 2025
2024 is deadliest year for journalists in CPJ history; almost 70% killed by Israel
Committee to Protect Journalists More journalists were killed in 2024 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data more than three decades ago. At least 124 journalists and media workers were killed last year, nearly two-thirds of them Palestinians...
12 Feb 2025Court Rules Warrantless Section 702 Searches Violated the Fourth Amendment
Press Release -- ACLU.org BROOKLYN, N.Y. — In a long-awaited ruling in United States v. Hasbajrami, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York last night held that warrantless queries — or searches — conducted under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act...
23 Jan 2025A Call to Media Organizations: Don’t Back Down in the Face of Trump’s Threats
By Maya Schenwar, Negin Owliaei, Ziggy West Jeffery -- Truthout Trump’s attacks on press freedom aren’t separate from his attacks on oppressed communities. We must resist them all.
20 Jan 2025Tracking the latest Espionage Act case
Defending Rights and Dissent Newsletter In November, CIA employee Asif Rahman was charged with violating the Espionage Act. The US government alleged that he disclosed two documents revealing American military assessments of Israel’s plan to strike Iran. Rahman has pleaded not guilty.
6 Jan 2025
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