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08/23/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Court confirms man can sue Google for defamation

An Australian man has successfully pressed his country’s highest court to rule that people can sue Google for defamation whenever the search engine giant publishes false and defamatory information about them. Milorad “Michael” Trkulja was reportedly shot in the back in 2004 at a restaurant in Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city. And at the time, […]

07/18/2018 / By Ethan Huff

Lawmaker: Google should be liable for false information found in Wikipedia text boxes presented alongside search results

In an effort to combat “fake news,” search engine giant Google, as well as its subsidiary YouTube, is revamping its website platform to include small “truth” boxes that contain information pulled from Wikipedia – the presumption being that Wikipedia is an accurate fact-checking source. But it certainly isn’t, and at least one legislator is raising […]

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