After tweeting an uninformed message defending Joe Paterno and apparently unaware that the fired Penn State coach was caught up in a child sex abuse cover-up, the actor with 8 million Twitter followers says he’s turning his account over to handlers.
Add: He also apologized. “[Twitter] has grown into a mass publishing platform, where ones [sic] tweets quickly become news that is broadcasted around the world and misinformation become volatile fodder for critics,” he’s quoted in the Washington Post.
