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Photo: Mehaniq (Shutterstock)An Australian Court announced Monday that Google will need to pay $515,000 for refusing to remove two YouTube videos about John Barilaro, the former New South Wales state deputy premier. Despite those damages being a small drop in the bucket for Google and its owner Alphabet, it may be a canary in a coal mine for how even more social companies could face even more legal action for users’ content.The videos cited in the suit were created by YouTuber Jordan Shanks, who also goes by…

An Australian court on Monday (June 6) ordered Google to pay a former politician 715,000 Australian dollars ($515,000) over two defamatory YouTube videos. John Barilaro, the former New South Wales state deputy premier, had sued Google and comedian Jordan Shanks, also known as friendlyjordies, in the Federal Court over the videos. Justice Steven Rares found Barilaro had been the "subject of a relentless, racist, abusive and defamatory campaign conducted on YouTube," a platform owned by Google. Barilaro told reporters…