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Can you be liable for defamation for what other people write on your Facebook page? Australian court says: maybe

Author: Michael Douglas, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Western Australia

In some ways, this case just adapts the old authorities on publication to a modern situation.Shutterstock

When you go online and write something nasty about a person, or even a small business, you risk being sued for defamation.

But if someone else goes online and writes something nasty about a person on your social media page, can you be held...