Meta has lost its latest bid to strike out the consumer regulator’s case alleging it failed to put up “reasonable safeguards” to prevent scam cryptocurrency ads on its Facebook platform.
An appeals court has thrown out X Corp’s legal challenge to a compliance notice issued by the eSafety Commissioner to corporate predecessor Twitter over child exploitation material monitoring on its platform.
Not cowed by threats of a legal challenge, the Albanese government has announced that it will be including Google’s YouTube in its world-first social media ban for children under the age of 16.
The ACCC is again trying to fend off a strike-out bid by Facebook owner Meta in its case over cryptocurrency ads, arguing Meta has built a system in which the misleading ads can flourish and is not an “innocent bystander”. The regulator lodged the case in March 2022, alleging it breached the Australian Consumer Law…
X Corp has brought proceedings against the eSafety commissioner arguing it is not covered under a new online safety standard, which allows the regulator to issue fines without a notice.
Australian gaming YouTuber Karl Jobst has been ordered to pay $350,000 in damages to US Donkey Kong champion Billy Mitchell over comments implying that he “hounded” another YouTuber to death.
The eSafety Commissioner has told the Full Court X Corp should not be able to use its merger with corporate predecessor Twitter to escape regulation.
Defamation boutique Giles George has a “good arguable case” that it has a solicitor’s lien over costs payable by Nine in a defamation case by barrister Gina Edwards over social media cavoodle Oscar.
The eSafety Commissioner has slapped encrypted messaging app Telegram with a $1 million fine for taking 160 days to provide information about its handling of terrorism and child abuse material.
A six-year legal battle by a Melbourne social media start-up over its termination from Meta’s platforms still rages, but for all that the case, according to the tech giant, is not one of epic — or even Epic — proportions.