Cost cutting pitches from some HR team hardly counts as "whistleblowing". The anti leaking sentiment at Google is pretty firmly grassroots. It's an incredibly narrow lens into a huge operation that necessarily creates an extremely skewed view of things, and erodes a long tradition of internal transparency.
The utility of leaks as a hedge against bad leadership is also much lower because Google provides vastly bigger levers for employees to pressure leadership internally than any other company I've worked for, including several startups. Not big enough, obviously, I'm not blind to the events of the past year or so.
So Dragonfly or Maven, sure. But this is just petty misleading stuff that there's no reason to put out in the world, and makes it harder to keep Google on the straight and narrow on stuff that actually matters.
The utility of leaks as a hedge against bad leadership is also much lower because Google provides vastly bigger levers for employees to pressure leadership internally than any other company I've worked for, including several startups. Not big enough, obviously, I'm not blind to the events of the past year or so.
So Dragonfly or Maven, sure. But this is just petty misleading stuff that there's no reason to put out in the world, and makes it harder to keep Google on the straight and narrow on stuff that actually matters.