73-year-old man awarded $120,000 for defamatory Facebook posts by churchgoer

A 73-year-old man has been awarded $120,000 in damages and $85,000 in legal costs after winning a defamation battle against a fellow churchgoer over Facebook posts branding him a scammer.

In the latest in a series of Australian defamation cases involving slurs on social media, the Melbourne man launched court action over six Facebook posts between January and March 2018.