LIKE AND COMMENT?

Australian news publishers are liable for Facebook comments posted by third parties in response to the publishers’ content, the country’s high court ruled Wednesday.

The court dismissed an appeal against a previous ruling in favor of former juvenile detainee Dylan Voller in his high-profile defamation case against Australian newspapers and television stations.

“The Court of Appeal was correct to hold that the acts of the appellants in facilitating, encouraging and thereby assisting the posting of comments by the third-party Facebook users rendered them publishers of those comments,” the court ruled.