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The man behind the Stock Swami Twitter account is flying to Sydney for cross-examination after a judge halted a trial in mining investor Tolga Kumova’s defamation case, saying he had “no confidence whatsoever” the Twitter user complied with discovery obligations.

A judge has halted a defamation trial in a case brought by mining investor Tolga Kumova after saying he had “no confidence whatsoever” that the owner of Twitter account Stock Swami complied with discovery obligations.

A judge has ordered that Google pay indemnity costs to former deputy premier of NSW John Barilaro, in addition to $7150,000 in damages over a “relentless, racist, vilificatory, abusive and defamatory campaign” by YouTube commentator Jordan Shanks that the tech giant “did nothing” to stop.

Former Young Rich Lister Tolga Kumova sold $24 million worth of shares in mining company after publishing positive social media posts about its prospects, a court has heard in a defamation trial over allegations he engaged in insider trading and pumping and dumping. 

A judge has pulled up a law firm over a tweet it published about defamation proceedings brought by investor Tolga Kumova, telling a barrister during the trial Thursday to counsel his instructing solicitors about the “highly unsatisfactory” social media post.

Former Young Rich Lister Tolga Kumova has admitted to publishing an inaccurate tweet about the value of a mineral resource owned by a zinc producer of which he was a director, agreeing at trial in his defamation case that he was off by $4.8 billion.

Network Ten has moved to strike out claims that it’s Canberra bureau, led by high profile political reporter Peter van Onselen and executive editor Anthony Murdoch “was a workplace that was hostile to women.”

Facebook owner Meta is fighting for broad non-publication orders in its battle with the ACCC over material it says could prejudice jury members in criminal proceedings by mining magnate Andrew Forrest.

The Federal Court has ordered social media giant Twitter to produce information related to a user on the platform who goes by the name PRGuy.

A judge has questioned how the court will award costs in refugee activist Shane Bazzi’s successful appeal against coalition leader Peter Dutton, saying crowdfunding for the activist’s legal costs made the issue “complicated and difficult”.