The High Court of Australia has declared that Google is not a publisher. The judgement, which legal experts say could hold significant ramifications for the general public, means that the company is not responsible for defamatory news articles.
As we move into the holiday season, we look back on a year of change. The Economist launched its first NFT, Amazon bought MGM, and in Afghanistan the media landscape shifted seismically as a female anchor was broadcast interviewing a Taliban spokesperson. Meanwhile, as the rest of us endeavoured to return real-world events, Facebook went Meta, and there were BIG deals too throughout the traditional magazine universe. The Media Weekly morphs into the Media Year this week, as we take a whistlestop tour of 2021…