“…First, it complements a vast literature in communication science, journalism studies, law and political science studying anonymous disclosures of confidential information in the realm of public policy-making (e.g. Hess, 1984;Abel, 1987;Flynn, 2006;Kielbowicz, 2006;De Jong and De Vries, 2007;Lee, 2008;Pozen, 2013;Patz, 2016;Landert and Miscione, 2017;Sampedro et al, 2018;Rottman, 2019).…”