Twitter Defamation Cases Are Heating Up
Watch what you say on Twitter. Just because something is 140 characters long, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have the power to land you in the courtroom.
Another Twitter defamation case has been filed. Perhaps not surprisingly, this one – like several before it – is in the entertainment industry: record executive Ira DeWitt is suing artist Johnny Gill for comments that he made about her on Twitter.
According to Hollywood Reporter, Gill is being accused of attacking the reputation of Notifi Records CEO DeWitt on Twitter, by claiming that she had hired another singer to finish the vocals on his song, and then created a fake Twitter account to “leak” the unfinished single.
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