10 Social Media Screw-Ups From Major Stars

8. Ashton Kutcher's Ill Informed Tweet

He found fame by marrying Demi Moore, replacing Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men, and recently fathering a child with Mila Kunis (as well as having a varied acting career.) However, like everyone else he is fallible. When he found out that Joe Paterno, football coach of Penn State, had been fired Kutcher launched into an ill informed rant about how this sacking was in €˜poor taste.€™ It turned out that the coach had been sacked as he had not responded to allegation of sexual abuse towards children by his former assistant, Jerry Sandusky. This was a serious enough charge to validate the sacking, but Kutcher had not done his research before releasing his anger on Twitter. This ill informed defence was later retracted and control of his Twitter account went to his production company. He accepted that he had made a mistake and released a statement expressing his remorse.
Was this mistake understandable? Yes. Kutcher later told how he had assumed that Paterno was let go due to his age, so Kutcher immediately tweeted his dissatisfaction. He should have at least looked through the article, but we have all made reactionary comments that we have later realised were moronic. The next entry however, is nowhere near as understandable...
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