Media Companies Responsible for Facebook Comments

A landmark ruling in Australia has found that media companies can be held responsible for third-party comments on their Facebook pages.

High Court finds media outlets are responsible for Facebook comments in Dylan Voller defamation case

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The High Court has dismissed an appeal by some of Australia's biggest media outlets including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian, finding they are the publishers of third-party comments on their Facebook pages. Former Northern Territory detainee Dylan Voller wants to sue the companies over alleged defamatory comments on their Facebook pages in the New South Wales Supreme Court. But the case had been stalled by the dispute over whether the outlets were the publishers of the material. The High Court today found that, by running the Facebook pages, the media groups participated in communicating any defamatory material posted by third parties and are therefore responsible for the comments.

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