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Within the last years, whistleblowing has received considerable attention, as calls for ethical behavior in the workplace have grown louder and more forceful. Despite this fact, research has shown that individuals who blow the whistle are often frowned upon and treated poorly. In this context, while social media allows for offering support to the whistleblower, people may also hide behind online anonymity and engage in unethical behavior towards the whistleblower. Previous research already tried to explain unethical behavior on social media by linking moral receptors with moral disengagement in the context of unethical behavior. We built upon this approach in developing a set of propositions linking the moral receptors “harm/care”, “fairness/reciprocity”, “in-group/loyalty”, “authority/respect”, and “purity/sanctity” with moral disengagement in order to explain unethical behavior against whistleblowers on social media …