This week's web exclusive article on social media and EPL liabilities (“Social media: Speak your mind but mind your content“) couldn't have come at a better time — although I guess it came a little too late for Gilbert Gottfried.
In case you haven't heard yet, AFLAC this week fired comic Gilbert Gottfried, long-time voice of the Duck, because of a series of sick (and really not very funny) jokes Gottfried tweeted in the wake of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
In a similar story, an employee of the social media agency representing Chrysler was fired after he simultaneously dropped the F-bomb and insulted Detroit in one 140-words-or-less tweet.
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