{"id":8671,"date":"2022-06-06T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/google-ordered-to-pay-515-000-for-hosting-anti-italian-relentless-racist-and-abusive-videos-about-australian-politician"},"modified":"2022-10-18T07:43:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T07:43:38","slug":"google-ordered-to-pay-515-000-for-hosting-anti-italian-relentless-racist-and-abusive-videos-about-australian-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/google-ordered-to-pay-515-000-for-hosting-anti-italian-relentless-racist-and-abusive-videos-about-australian-politician","title":{"rendered":"Google ordered to pay $515,000 for hosting anti-Italian &#8216;relentless, racist and abusive&#8217; videos about Australian politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don&#8217;t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.The Australian Federal Court has ordered Google to pay the former deputy premier of Australia&#8217;s most populous state, John Barilaro, A$715,000 ($515,000) in defamation damages after two videos posted on YouTube drove him to quit politics prematurely.The videos posted by political commentator Jordan Shanks were a &#8220;relentless, racist, vilificatory, abusive and defamatory campaign&#8221; against Barilaro, Judge Steven Rares said in the verdict.The now-retired Barilaro sued Google and Shanks over two videos titled &#8220;bruz&#8221; and &#8220;Secret Dictatorship,&#8221; published on the friendlyjordies channel in late 2020, which are both still up on YouTube.The videos label the then deputy premier of New South Wales as a corrupt conman without evidence, and call him racist names that were &#8220;nothing less than hate speech&#8221;, the judge said. Those and other videos by Shanks also accuse Barilaro of committing perjury nine times, engaging in blackmail, and having an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don&#8217;t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations. The Australian Federal Court has ordered Google to pay the former<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,130],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-8671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-technology","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}