Medical Q&A Platform Ask The Doctor Will Sue Shiba Inucoin, Twitter War of Words

Tuesday might be boring, but an ongoing Twitter drama has attracted the attention of many blockchain enthusiasts. The Canadian medical question-and-answer website Ask The Doctor recently announced that it will sue Shytoshi Kusama, the volunteer project leader of Shiba Inucoin (SHIB), for alleged defamation, and will try to reveal his personal identity in court. Kusama immediately fired back, claiming that "it is illegal for (Ask The Doctor) to charge people money for a service it never provided."

Tell your legal team that it is illegal to buy a verified account to defraud others. Tell them it's illegal to take people's money for a service you never provided.

If you really want to target me...

Go ahead.

Anyway, it's almost time... I'm ready

— Shytoshi Kusama™ (@ShytoshiKusama) December 21, 2021

The heated debate began when Kusama cited a tweet from Ask The Doctor promoting SHIB the day before, accusing "You are a scam account. Where is your 'doctor' tweet from your promotional account in 2009?" If the plot If that wasn't complicated enough, Ask The Doctor used to be a SHIB influencer.

In a tweet on Dec. 1, the company claimed to have added 31 billion SHIB ($1.5 million at the time) to its balance sheet. On Monday, Ask The Doctor tweeted that it had removed SHIB tokens from its books. According to Twitter users, the company has been heavily promoting the SHIB token to retail investors for the past month.

As of this writing, Ask the Doctor continues to escalate the conflict on Twitter. In recent tweets, the company claims that SHIB is “a scam,” is “on its way to zero,” “faces delisting,” and, without evidence, says “rug pulls are imminent.” In the less than 24 hours since the conflict began, Ask the Doctor appears to have lost nearly 10,000 Twitter followers, leaving around 48,000. While Ask The Doctor said it dumped SHIB for business purposes, it did not explain why it invested in what it believed to be a “scam” coin in the first place.

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