A man has been awarded $35,000 in damages after a judge found he was defamed by a single post in a Sydney community Facebook group.
Key points:
- Bruce Goldberg said people yelled at him in the street and whispered about him
- He argued the post was seen by “hundreds” of people
- Mr Goldberg gave evidence that he was “shocked and speechless” at the post
Local man Bruce Goldberg successfully argued the post in the Rose Bay group, by Alice Voigt in November 2018, conveyed imputations including that he was a danger to women and a stalker.
The online spat began when Mr Goldberg started a rival community Facebook group the year before, after being banned from the “official” Rose Bay page.
The suburb is among Sydney’s most affluent, where the median house pri