Media giants suffer another blow in defamation case over Facebook comments

Banki Haddock Fiora 2020-06-01 8:51 pm By Alison Eveleigh | Sydney

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Australian media outlets are facing liability for defamatory remarks left under news articles they posted on Facebook, after a court of appeal found that the companies are publishers of the third-party comments.

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