According to the Australian publication, The Age, Domain.com.au’s parent company, Fairfax Media was recently fined AUS$15,000 for contempt after it unintentionally published false advertising for its real estate site Domain despite a court undertaking.
Fairfax also owns The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. An advertisement in the SMH on the 13th of February, 2017 claimed Domain was the “#1 property app in Australia” and it had “the most property listings in Sydney”.
The previous day, Domain’s rival REA Group, owner of realestate.com.au, initiated court proceedings stating Fairfax had misled consumers by implementing the phrases and requested an interim injunction to cease any further publication of the sort.
News Corp, Fairfax’s competitor, majority owns REA Group.
The next day, Fairfax attorneys stated that the publication was inadvertent, accidental and unintentional.
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