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X loses Full Court challenge to eSafety Commissioner infringement notice
Appeals 2025-07-31 10:53 am By Cindy Cameronne

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. 

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Google’s YouTube part of Albanese government’s social media ban
Social Media 2025-07-30 1:25 pm By Cindy Cameronne

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.

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Meta not ‘innocent bystander’, says ACCC in fight to keep crypto ad case alive
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-06-04 11:50 pm By Cindy Cameronne

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…

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X Corp brings legal challenge over eSafety obligations
Social Media 2025-05-26 11:48 pm By Cindy Cameronne

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.

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Donkey Kong champ wins defamation case against Aussie YouTuber
Defamation 2025-04-02 3:56 pm By Cindy Cameronne

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. 

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eSafety Commissioner says X can’t use Twitter merger to escape regulation
Appeals 2025-03-26 11:08 pm By Sam Matthews

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.

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Giles George has good case for lien over costs in barrister’s case: judge
Defamation 2025-02-27 2:42 pm By Cindy Cameronne

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. 

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Telegram hit with $1M fine for late terrorism, child abuse reporting
Social Media 2025-02-24 11:33 am By Cat Fredenburgh

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.

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Meta slams ‘absurdly broad’ doc bid in Dialogue’s ‘modest’ yet hard-fought case
Competition & Consumer Protection 2025-02-18 11:05 pm By Christine Caulfield

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.

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Mark Latham appeals $140,000 judgment for homophobic tweet
Defamation 2025-02-11 10:36 pm By Sam Matthews

Former NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham has appealed a defamation judgment for independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich, arguing a homophobic tweet was not likely to cause serious harm to Greenwich’s reputation.

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