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Greens deputy leader launches discrimination case over Pauline Hanson Tweet
Human Rights 2023-05-03 11:36 pm By Christine Caulfield

One Nation senator Pauline Hanson has been taken to court by Greens deputy leader Dr Mehreen Faruqi over a social media post Faruqi claims was insulting and humiliating.

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Meta’s market power still eclipses all other social media combined, ACCC says
ACCC 2023-04-28 11:14 pm By Christine Caulfield

Despite the growing popularity of new entrant TikTok, Facebook and Instagram-owner Meta retains significant market power in the social media industry, reporting annual advertising revenue of $5 billion in Australia alone, a report has found.

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‘ASX Wolf’ trader permanently banned from carrying on unlawful financial services business
ASIC 2023-04-13 3:20 pm By Sam Matthews

Gold Coast ‘finfluencer’ Tyson Scholz has been permanently barred from conducting a financial services business without a license, after a court found he provided illegal financial services by giving tips on his Instagram account and to customers who paid for access to his seminars and ‘Black Wolf Pit’ chat room.

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Facebook to cop penalty in ACCC case over ‘misleading’ data protection app
ACCC 2023-03-10 3:20 pm By Cat Fredenburgh

Facebook will face a penalty in the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s case alleging it misled consumers by representing that its discontinued Onavo Protect mobile app would keep users’ personal activity data private.

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TikTok loses trade mark battle with mortgage tech startup Tic:Toc
Baker McKenzie 2023-03-09 11:47 pm By Christine Caulfield

The owner of Chinese social media giant TikTok has lost its challenge to the registration of a trade mark for home loan tech startup Tic:Toc.

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Court warns of ‘dangers’ of defamation suits, awards Google reviewer indemnity costs
Defamation 2023-03-09 11:25 pm By Christine Caulfield

A judge who tossed a house painter’s case over a one-star Google review has awarded partial indemnity costs to the critic and said her order should serve as a lesson about the “catastrophic” costs of defamation cases.

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Full Court orders rehearing in Erin Molan defamation case
Appeals 2023-03-06 6:30 pm By Sam Matthews

The Full Federal Court has set aside a $150,000 defamation judgment for sports presenter Erin Molan and remitted the matter for a new trial, after finding a judge failed to properly consider publisher the Daily Mail’s defence of contextual truth.

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Daily Mail says Erin Molan’s ‘egregious conduct’ warrants reversal of $150,000 damages award
Appeals 2023-03-02 11:20 pm By Sam Matthews

The Daily Mail has argued that Nine sports presenter Erin Molan should be stripped of a $150,000 defamation damages award because of her history of “seriously egregious conduct” on 2GB’s Continuous Call Team radio show.

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Nine defeats strike-out bid in defamation suit over ‘internet trolls’ broadcast
Associate Justice Melissa Daly 2023-02-27 10:39 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Nine has defeated a bid to strike out its truth defences in a defamation case by a Melbourne hairdresser alleging a segment on ‘A Current Affair’ about ‘internet trolls’ and subsequent comments on the program’s Facebook page defamed her.

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Tolga Kumova wins order barring Stock Swami Twitter ‘campaign’
Barry Dean 2023-02-10 6:48 pm By Cindy Cameronne

Mining investor Tolga Kumova has won an order banning the man behind the Twitter handle Stock Swami from publishing allegations concerning the his past actions after a judge found he was defamed by tweets accusing him of insider trading.

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