An Australian federal court on Monday ordered Google to pay more than 466,000 euros to an Australian politician who was slandered in a comedy video posted on YouTube.
In 2020, John Barillaro was the Deputy Prime Minister of New South Wales when he became the target of an Australian comedian known as “friendly jordans«. In videos posted on YouTube, he accused him of corruption, imitating his Italian accent. In court, the former senior politician collapsed while watching one of them being filmed by a comedian in a luxury home owned by an elected official և rented by AirBnB.
More than a million views on YouTube
«I’m traumatized by all that“John Barillaro testified in court. At the end of 2021 he came to an agreement “friendly jordanswhose real name is Jordan Shanks. The humorist thus apologized և agreed to change the videos viewed more than a million times on YouTube.
Judge Steven Reyes has ruled that Google, the owner of YouTube, has been liable for damages to John Barillaro since December 2020, when the politician’s lawyers wrote to the American giant asking him to remove the offensive videos. The judge ordered Google to compensate the damage. According to him, these videos caused John Barillaro to leave the state post prematurely. he resigned in October 2020.և significantly injured him«.
Steven Reyes felt that Jordan ShanksYouTube needed to spread its poison“Google was ready to join the comedian”earn revenue as part of its business model«. AFP contacted Google to respond to a request for comment.
Source: Le Figaro
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