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by pclmulqdq 786 days ago
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.

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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...