i got sued for a blog post..

I wrote a blog post about a former employee and got sued for defamation. I didn't say his name or anything. We were just trying to pump out content. It was in one of those Forbes contributor articles. I wrote this article just like, here's why you should never courtesy hire, and ended up getting a lawsuit against us. Got a lawsuit? Not cease and desist, not take it down, like a real filed lawsuit that we had to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and ended up settling. All because you wrote a blog post? You didn't mention a person's name. What I learned was that defamation, you don't have to say their name. They just have to be easily identifiable, which is obviously subjective. And then it becomes a who wants to settle and not spend money and time. Exactly. That's the