[kevingadd]

classic protection racket: a guy with a blog rolling up to a millionaire and breaking his kneecaps. You'll never work in this town again, buddy! I've got a blog! The millionaire calls the cops but they won't help because they're too busy chasing dogs with their cars, so he calls his other millionaire friends but they're too busy teaching LLMs how to sell banner ads or teaching self-driving cars how to hit dogs. The millionaire gnashes his teeth and rends his garments. But then he remembers! The law! He calls up a lawyer and says, "this guy with a blog is slandering me, and he broke my kneecaps! I've tried everything and nothing works!" The lawyer thinks for a moment and responds, "that sounds like libel to me, not slander." Crestfallen at the news that he mixed up two very similar concepts, the millionaire settles for having a highly-paid job ruining one of the world's foremost search engines, and accepts the reality that no one in San Francisco has more power than a guy with a blog.

[pclmulqdq]

In all seriousness, written defamation is a tort if you can prove that the allegations about you are both factually false (not just "opinions I don't like" or "not the full story" - even the statement "X is a Nazi" might not be defamatory) and materially damaging. It doesn't sound like either of those is the case.

If this guy loses a $10M/year job over these posts, his lawyer may well go through them to see if they are defamatory.

[skulk]

Is a SVP of a trillion-dollar publicly traded company legally considered a public figure? If so, the bar for defamation is a lot higher because they need to show malice. https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/public-figures-and-o...