Twitter Experiment Costs The Washington Post Sports Columnist Mike Wise 30 Days
Helpful advice to journalists: If you’re going to perform Twitter experiments, don’t use the accounts that are tied to your place of employment. The Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise just learned that lesson the hard way.
According to The New York Times, Wise was suspended by the Post for one month for sending a Tweet stating that Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger would be suspended for five games — information he made up — and following it up with three retweets of other Twitter members using his Tweet as a source.
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