He could send a DMCA takedown notice and have all of his articles removed, or organize all the other unemployed writers and coordinate a massive DMCA takedown letter writing campaign.
Even if this were true (it isn't), what difference would it make? The content he was writing was ephemeral fluff, designed to fill the daily news hole. It's not like Wikipedia. They could lose everything that all these writers wrote up to 6 months ago and chances are that nobody would notice. Guy got fired because he would have had to be treated differently for tax purposes if they had kept him on the payroll any longer, I suspect.
Even if this were true (it isn't), what difference would it make? The content he was writing was ephemeral fluff, designed to fill the daily news hole. It's not like Wikipedia. They could lose everything that all these writers wrote up to 6 months ago and chances are that nobody would notice. Guy got fired because he would have had to be treated differently for tax purposes if they had kept him on the payroll any longer, I suspect.