Australian media outlets liable for Facebook comments, court finds

Australia's biggest news publishers, including Rupert Murdoch's The Australian, are responsible for comments that readers post on their corporate Facebook pages, the High Court ruled on Wednesday.

The court dismissed an appeal against a previous ruling that found in favour of a defamation suit by Dylan Voller, a young man who had been the subject of several news reports about youth detention.

"This is a common-sense decision that...