Conservative actor James Woods is suing a twitter user for $10 million citing defamation. The user claimed that Woods had a cocaine addiction and the actor took umbrage with the accusation. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.
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“Incivility on social media seems to be a regular occurrence, and celebrities usually shrug it off (or don’t even read the comments from people who are tweeting at them), but James Woods is making a $10 million case about it.
On Wednesday, the actor went to the Los Angeles Superior Court and sued the anonymous individual who is tweeting as “Abe List” for defamation over a derogatory tweet that suggested Woods was a “cocaine addict” — a message that Woods complains was sent to “thousands of AL’s followers and hundreds of thousands of Mr. Woods’ followers.”