Australia’s highest court is hearing a case on whether news publishers are responsible for defamatory third-party comments on their Facebook pages

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The Guardian / Paul Karp / May 19, 2021

The court heard arguments that posts made by Australian media companies Fairfax Media and News Corp were “highly emotive” and invited derogatory comments. —

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