Conspiracy theorist ordered to pay $875,000 for 'deranged' online rants about federal MP

Federal MP Anne Webster, her husband, and the not-for-profit organisation they founded to support young mothers, have been awarded a total of $875,000 in defamation payouts over a series of "vile" and "unjustifiable" online posts made to Facebook earlier this year.

She said the defamatory publications "spread along the grapevine into the Mildura community" — where Dr Webster's husband, Phillip, is a GP — via her Facebook page and its several thousand followers. "It’s not an unknown world — but it is a bit of a scary world — where people can share whatever they like and it’s only by going through legal cases that things can change," she said.

"It should have been obvious to Ms Brewer, at all relevant times and if she were capable of rational consideration on the subject, that her defamatory statements were wholly indefensible," Justice Gleeson said.She said Ms Brewer's conduct — including posting another video targeting the Websters in late August — justified awarding aggravated damages against her.

Why are yall mentioning Q? Karen Brewer has nothing to do with Q and Q has never mentioned Anne Webster or Karen. Total deflection and scapegoating.

Good

Time Australians could take MPs to court for rants and unfounded accusations in Parliament toward business and individuals then. Don't really see the difference.

So Federal Politicians using the federal court as their own private kangaroo court? For all the pomp and ceremony what did this achieve besides a waste of taxpayers money? The conspiracy poster can't be forced to pay or even remove the posts. It changes nothing.

That's one Karen deal with

I wish I had cornered the market for tin foil hats!

Can today get any better? Yay! 🤗

Isn't our PM mates with the biggest Q-hole in Australia?

Now just need deranged PM’s and MP’s fined for online rants about other MP’s and/or Premiers, you know it makes sense 😳

Geez where does that put followers of QAnon? Lots of theories are now being spread here in Aus. Be careful Pauline.

🤭 her name is not Karen! Surely!

Look for 6% in their profile names LOL They think it's 'Secret Code' LOL

Great news, hate didn't win.

Sadly this will just confirm the worldview of many QAnons.

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GOOD!!

Jeez, they turned that case around pretty quick!

'Karen' ? You couldn't make this stuff up.

I'm not saying Facebook should be banned, but it deserves to be banned more than Tik Tok

This is why you should always rant incoherently.

Good! They cause a lot of trouble

YouTube YouTubeTV still have her content up though. This woman is a wanton Qanon serial pest. YouTube you should remove her content and read the above article.

Well done Karen

Good to see tinfoil idiots facing the consequences of their actions 👍

FB should bear some responsibility

Good

Need more of this to thin the nutters

As long as this ruling sets a precident that even across all people, i am ok with it

it's good to see that the government is getting in on grifting off the tinfoil hat qanon brigade as well as .. well .. the tinfoil hat qanon brigade

When the actions of Q pilled morons have real life consequences

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