Sock Puppets, The Gammonati And Whistleblowers

In a week that has been a podcast producer's nightmare, two stories stuck in my mind - that of Eoghan Harris and his sock puppet account, and how a Swedish healthcare whistleblower who should have been treated like a hero was called "illoyal" by her employer.
That led to this rant, and it only occurred to me at the very end that, though they are very different, they are actually about the same fundamental things.