Media contributions
1Media contributions
Title ‘High Court decision will help clean up garbage on social media’, The Sydney Morning Herald Country/Territory Australia Date 8/09/21 Description The High Court decision to hold media companies responsible for their readers’ comments on Facebook is a devastating defeat for the industry. On Wednesday, the court affirmed (by 5-2 majority) that media companies are the “publishers” of comments made by third party users on those companies’ Facebook pages. This means that media companies may be liable in defamation for the nasty stuff randoms write on their socials. URL https://www.smh.com.au/national/high-court-decision-will-help-clean-up-garbage-on-social-media-20210908-p58pxi.html Persons Michael Douglas