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In Australia, media have been named responsible for user comments
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The judges ruled that the media are the publishers of their users’ comments on social networks.
In Australia, the Supreme Court ruled that the media are fully responsible for user comments on their social media pages. This was announced on Wednesday, September 8, by the TV channel. ABC.
Thus, the court ruled that by opening their pages on social networks, in particular on Facebook, media companies participate in the dissemination of information, including those posted by third parties, and therefore are responsible for the content of all comments.
“The court found that by creating a public page and posting content, the media companies facilitated, encouraged and facilitated the publication of comments from third-party users, and therefore were the publishers of these comments,” ABC points out.
This court decision was the result of litigation between some Australian media and a resident of the Northern Territory, Dylan Woller, who accused several of the country’s largest media companies of spreading defamation. The reason was a television story, filmed in December 2016, about the conditions of detention in prisons in the Northern Territory of Australia. The material, which used footage of Woller, handcuffed to a chair, received widespread resonance and became the basis for materials from other media published and on their pages on social networks. Some of the comments to Voller’s texts and photographs, as it turned out, were extremely negative and did not correspond to reality, which was the reason for the accusations of libel.
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