Australian federal court has found that Google, which owns Alphabet Inc. and controls YouTube content, has made thousands of dollars by posting two videos against the deputy prime minister of New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia. .
An Australian court has ruled that Google to pay $ 515,000 (480,000 thousand euros) to a high-ranking member of parliament, after he found out that the “ruthless, racist, offensive and defamatory campaign” of a commentator on YouTube led him to resign permanently from politics.
Australian federal court has found that Google, which owns Alphabet Inc. and controls YouTube content, has made thousands of dollars by posting two videos against the deputy prime minister of New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia. . The videos have had about 800,000 views since their post in late 2020.
Political commentator Jordan Sanks’s videos question John Barillaro’s political integritycalling him “corrupt” without giving evidence, while calling him a racist “resorting to nothing less than a divisive reason,” Judge Steve Reyes told the court.
When Barillaro left politics in October 2021, he did so because he was “hit by the campaign of Google and Mr. Shanks, who pushed him to leave politics permanently,” Reyers said.
“I found that Google’s conduct in this process was inappropriate and unjustified.”
A Google spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.
A spokesman for Shanks, who was co-accused with Google until a compromise was reached between him and Barillaro last year, could not immediately comment on the developments.
