Ifeoma Ozoma Blew the Whistle on Pinterest. Now She Protects Whistle-Blowers.
Ifeoma Ozoma Blew the Whistle on Pinterest. Now She Protects Whistle-Blowers.
Ifeoma Ozoma Blew the Whistle on Pinterest. Now She Protects Whistle-Blowers.
Ifeoma Ozoma Blew the Whistle on Pinterest. Now She Protects Whistle-Blowers.
Ifeoma Ozoma Blew the Whistle on Pinterest. Now She Protects Whistle-Blowers.
Ifeoma Ozoma Blew the Whistle on Pinterest. Now She Protects Whistle-Blowers.
One year ago, Ifeoma Ozoma Blew the Whistle on Pinterest. She uses the social media site to tell the world about political corruption in Nigeria. She did it so that the government would stop stealing money and, more importantly, it would stop not providing aid to the less-developed. The United Nations says four million people there depend on food aid.
Ozoma Blew the Whistle on Pinterest happened a day after the campaign’s slogan, When you whistle, you send a message, was rolled out.
On Twitter, Blew the Whistle is addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari and Nigeria’s legislature. In Nigeria, politicians have their own social media accounts, including those of the president, a priest, the prime minister and others. Tweets, sent by Blew the Whistle on Pinterest, like “#environslowdownnow”, relate to the rumors that people are jailed because they have protested for a better country.
About six months ago, Blew the Whistle started to get attention. In January, 2018, Blew the Whistle was featured in CNN’s “A Year in Pictures”, which is where the article that is worth reading begins. Blew the Whistle’s account grew by more than 1,500 followers that week.
An article in the Daily Pilot newspaper of Newport Beach, California, Feb. 24, 2018, reported that Blew the Whistle is supported by Political Economy Research Institute, a think tank, and the California Watch, a Santa Monica-based nonprofit organization. Blew the Whistle got another boost when after those recent articles, Blew the Whistle also found itself on Instagram, the popular social media site for sharing photographs. Blew the Whistle (@blewthewhistle) had 25,000 followers on Instagram on March 9, 2018. (Up to now, Blew the Whistle has had no Facebook account.)
While her efforts may be successful, Blew the Whistle had another unexpected message, connected to the sexual harassment scandal in Washington. President Donald Trump and the Senate are working to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, a judge nominated to the Supreme Court. To resist Republican efforts to remove sexual harassment accusations against him from public view, advocates for women have turned to Blew the Whistle.
Who the hell is Blew the Whistle, the ethics activists and other social justice advocates are asking. Just who is she? Why does Blew the Whistle tweet? She’s 22. Blew the Whistle has never worked in government or politics before. Blew the Whistle isn’t even married.
Blew the Whistle tweets from what she describes as her daily handle @blewthewhistle, which tells how she’s passing information on to the public. She posts photos from her home (named Slim and Home), offering background on her life. She provides links to what she calls “important” articles on Twitter.
Blew, Twitter’s first “verified” account, is just one of many prominent people using the platform to tell the world about the wide-reaching corruption. BuzzFeed, BuzzFeed News, and the PBS Frontline documentary series “Years of Living Dangerously” have all used Blew the Whistle to amplify their work. The Media Ethics Institute, a journalism school, offered Blew the Whistle a scholarship for the year.
Blew the Whistle is hardly a professional activist, law enforcement, or government official. The only job that would suit her would be as a lobbyist. Blew has earned tens of thousands of dollars from Nigerian political parties, while also earning more than $12,000 in the four months since she joined Twitter. Blew told Off the Record that none of the money she earns from the Nigerian parties or Nigerian government could influence her decisions.
Marijuana legalization advocates are having a very good year. Government accountability advocates are having a great year.
Former members of Congress and members of the Obama administration have told Blew the Whistle that she has their support.
Blew likes hot topics that attract attention and pursue the truth