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The Facebook whistleblower: what’s different this time? Part II
1 February 2022In Part I we explained the outstanding profile of the Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen. We now discuss the factors showing whether Haugen’s whistleblowing experience is an outlier or whether it is indicative of what we will be seeing in other whistleblower cases in the future. -
The Facebook whistleblower: what’s different this time? Part I
13 January 2022“I don’t hate Facebook. I love Facebook. I want to save it” , wrote Frances Haugen as she resigned from Facebook and revealed tens of thousands of documents alleging Facebook has time and again prioritized profit over people. -
Are experts back in fashion? Four scenarios concerning the contestation of expertise in the European Union
21 May 2021There has been substantial political debate over the last decade about the role of experts in policymaking. But how are these trends likely to develop in future? Drawing on a new edited volume, Vigjilenca Abazi, Johan Adriaensen and Thomas Christiansen set out four distinct scenarios concerning the future role of expertise in policymaking within the EU. -
‘Inside’ the European Parliament’s Closed Reading Rooms: Transparency in the EU
2 October 2016Published on MLR blogs . What do documents about negotiations of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), oversight of the EU’s Food Safety Authority or Tax-Justice have in common? In order to access these documents, (selected) Members of the European Parliament are requested to attend closed reading rooms. This blog post discusses how an exception to open parliamentary oversight is increasingly becoming a regular institutional practice and questions its spillover effect on requests for public access to documents.
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