Ashton Kutcher, an Uber Investor, Wades Into Brouhaha With Tweets About 'Shady Journalist'

Defends ride-share exec's idea of 'digging up dirt' on editor

Ashton Kutcher, an investor in Uber, has taken to Twitter to question the uproar around recent comments by the car-sharing app's svp of business, Emil Michael.

A BuzzFeed article on Monday reported that Michael apparently believed his company should investigate journalists' personal lives—while singling out PandoDaily editor Sarah Lacy. On Tuesday, the executive apologized and suggested his comments didn't reflect his actual beliefs or intentions. And then last night, BuzzFeed reported that a different Uber executive had been using the app's data to track the whereabouts of one of the digital publication's reporters.

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