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High court casts doubt on media companies’ claim of not being responsible for defamatory comments on social media posts Paul Karp © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP The high court has cast doubt on media companies’ claims that they are not responsible for defamatory comments on their social media posts. Fairfax Media and News Corp have taken the matter to the high court after a NSW court of appeal found they were liable for defamatory material in Facebook comments on their posts about the incarceration of juvenile offender Dylan Voller, whose mistrea...

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Advertisement A Melbourne property developer is suing a local councillor for defamation over a string of comments made by other people on a community Facebook page, in the latest in a series of cases about the liability of online administrators for posts by third parties. Sam Zuchowski, director of Cavendish Properties, claims his reputation and standing have been severely injured because of comments on the Carrum and Patterson Lakes Forum Facebook page, administered by newly elected Kingston councillor Cameron Howe. Kingston councillor Cameron Howe. Cavendish Properties, headed by Mr Zuchows...

Facebook is now letting you turn off comments or limit them to just friends or people you tagged, something that will please Australian publishers.

LETTER | Malaysiakini’s contempt of court: Let the media beware A - LETTER | Lawyers and media groups have understandably expressed concern over the Federal Court's decision to cite news organisation Malaysiakini for contempt and fine it RM500,000 over five reader comments. But didn’t the lawyers and media groups see it coming? Perhaps not the fine amount which is, arguably, excessive, but the contempt decision itself? Based on the summary of the majority decision, Malaysiakini admitted that the comments are indeed offensive, inappropriate, disrespectful, and contemptuous and regretted ...