I've been working on a contract with this CEO of another company for a while. They've got a bad reputation in my industry – stuff I didn't even believe until now. Cartoonishly wicked. Recently, they've been saying absolutely repugnant (racist, homophobic) shit at industry events... they normally avoid it around me due to our relationship, but the CEO's spouse (who is NOT employed by the CEO's company) was caught red-handed. My direct reports (all five of them) also mentioned they heard similar.

Anyway, I've exhausted legal and HR methods of accountability, and I want to move to... sock infused methods of accountability.

I've been made aware that the CEO and/or spouse may have profiles on Parler, Truth Social (or whatever the fuck it's called), and the like. However no further information has been given.

My dream: I'd love to find some particularly damning post made by the CEO or spouse, or perhaps made by the spouse and liked by the CEO/tagging the CEO, and totally fuck them over in our industry. One email to a tech blog, and poof – they're toast. They answer to a board.

What intel I've got going for me: I know the CEO's name, the spouse's name, the spouse's license plate number, and general publicly available information (full resume, work history, industry articles, etc). I have a rough idea of where the CEO and their spouse live (1 mile radius). Cursory google searches brings up remarkably little about CEO or spouse due to their ultra-common names. If there's any dirt out there, they've also got at least 3 pages of SEO padding ahead of it.

What if I AI up some hillbilly profile picture, make up a person from a town nearby to their home town/state, "friend" them (or whatever Parler has), then do the digging? Is it as simple as that? What am I missing?

I've also been made aware of the website Spokeo for digging up public info on people – does anybody have experience with this/recommend it?