Got 'exceeds expectations' in my review. Cut as a 'low performer' two months later.

My mid-year review said "exceeds expectations." I have it in writing. I took a screenshot before my access was cut because I had a feeling I might need it. When the layoff email came, it said the round was targeting "low performers." I am not a low performer. My review said so. My skip-level had told me verbally that I was being considered for promotion. The hardest part isn't the job loss. It's being publicly labelled something you aren't. The company put out a press release calling these "performance-based cuts." Journalists wrote it up that way. My former colleagues saw it. My new employers will Google my name and find those articles. I have a review that says "exceeds expectations." I have no way of putting that in front of every person who reads the news coverage. That is what I'm living with.