https://www.nationalreview.com/news/australian-news-outlets-liable-for-comments-to-articles-posted-on-social-media-court-rules/
News outlets may be held liable for defamatory comments to articles posted on social media sites, an Australian court ruled on Monday.
The decision could effectively prevent news outlets from posting articles on social media at all, which could disrupt user consumption of news, social media, and advertising.
“Today’s decision means the media cannot share any story via Facebook without fear of being sued for comments which they did not publish and have no control over,” defendants including News Corp Australia and the publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald said in a statement. “It also creates the extraordinary situation where every public Facebook page—whether it be held by politicians, businesses or courts—is now liable for third-party comments on those pages.”