Is a defamatory comment left on your Facebook page more like graffiti on a wall, a streaker on live TV, or a hand-delivered telegram? Whatever your metaphor, Australian courts now say publishers are legally liable for words they neither wrote nor published.
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“You can’t stop these guys from getting rich as hell and doing things, but I can at least have a marker laid out there in the cyber world saying: Hey, take a hard look.”
“Even though online platforms are where nearly all journalists today begin their career, the internet is often presented as a bolt-on topic when it comes to media law.”
Ragusea, Adam. "Journalists shouldn’t lose their rights in their move to private platforms." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 20 Apr. 2015. Web. 25 Apr. 2024.
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Chicago
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