{"id":114,"date":"2020-06-15T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brolly.com.au\/?p=114"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T22:56:40","slug":"media-organisations-liable-for-facebook-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brolly.io\/au\/blog\/2020\/06\/15\/media-organisations-liable-for-facebook-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Media organisations liable for Facebook content"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may remember the contentious\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/nsw\/media-companies-liable-for-facebook-comments-made-by-others-court-finds-20190624-p520rf.html\">NSW Supreme Court decision in June 2019<\/a>\u00a0that ruled\u00a0<strong>media companies are liable for Facebook comments made by others<\/strong>. This ruling effectively classifies media outlets as publishers of reader comments on Facebook, and it has implications for any organisations with public social media accounts. This week we hear that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/media-companies-lose-appeal-over-facebook-defamation-ruling-20200601-p54y8s.html\">decision was upheld by the NSW Court of Appeal<\/a>, in a case brought by a number of media organisations.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au\/decision\/1725e1ead406ec197776976c\">Read the decision<\/a>\u00a0on the NSW Caselaw website\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The importance of Facebook archiving<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What this means for you<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 if your organisation has social media accounts and you encourage reader comments, you could be liable for defamatory or other illegal behaviour on your feed. 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