Looks like the professor had set up the whistleblower, facebook, archive before they were fired:

https://fbarchive.org/

Since the endowment doesn’t need the cash, I wonder what the person making the decision personally received as a payoff.

Edit: Here are the documents talking about the whistleblowing: https://whistlebloweraid.org/joan-donovan-disclosure-harvard-betrayed-academic-freedom-and-the-public-interest-to-protect-meta/