A Google spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
Sydney:
An Australian court on Monday ordered Google to pay $715,000 ($515,000) to a former senior lawmaker after finding that a YouTube commentator’s “relentless, racist, abusive, abusive and abusive campaign” had cost him prematurely. Inspired to leave politics earlier.
The Federal Court found that Alphabet Inc.’s Google, which owns the content-sharing website YouTube, earned thousands of dollars by hosting two videos attacking the deputy premier of New South Wales, Australia’s most populous state, who was late They have between nearly 800,000 views since they were posted. 2020.
The video by political commentator Jordan Shanks questioned the integrity of the lawmaker, John Barillaro, including labeling him “corrupt” without evidence, and calling him racist names that were “no less than hate speech”, Judge Steve Rarees told the court. told .
When Barillaro left politics in October 2021, it was because he was “hurt by the campaign of Google and Mr.
“I found Google’s conduct in this proceeding to be unfair and inappropriate.”
A Google spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
A spokesman for Shanks, who was a co-defendant with Google until he and Barillaro reached a settlement last year, was not immediately available for comment.
($1 = 1.3883 Australian Dollar)
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