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Is a CEO publicly accusing someone publicly of "ineffective leadership and poor performance" a libelous statement?
by maxk42 4y ago
Is a CEO publicly accusing someone publicly of "ineffective leadership and poor performance" a libelous statement?
- bombcar 4y agoI'm sure there's lawyers somewhere willing to take the case, perhaps even pro bono, just for the publicity. Discovery would be hilarious.
- dsr_ 4y agoIf it's not true, it is libel or slander depending on how it was delivered. It may be that Twitter's HR records say "fired for cause: ineffective leadership and poor performance" in which case the statement would be technically true. It's much more likely that Twitter's HR records say something like "fired, not a good fit" in which case it's back to reputational harm.
- hedora 4y agoIf the HR records say that, and it’s not true, that doesn’t get twitter off the hook. It might make it harder to sue the CEO directly though, depending on who was involved in writing the HR record.
- Terretta 4y agoIt’s 100% true though: He was ineffective at keeping quiet about security problems to governance parties, and performed poorly at persuading peers not reporting to him to fix things they weren’t incentivized on.
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- weeblewobble 4y agoProbably not, because it's an opinion.