When they want to publicly claim credit for being a certain way but their actions point to another, it's up to them to clarify their position, and use whatever evidence to support their claim.

This seems an extreme solution to media investigation of a small number of people losing their jobs

Perhaps instead, in these situations, employers could provide, at the discretion of the dismissed, information gathered while performing due diligence leading up to the dismissal

We all know there's a zero percent chance of that happening. For many, many reasons.