Crikey report
A Hancock spokesperson denied that the company had tried to censor Crikey’s reporting, instead blaming a third party who “inadvertently” filed takedown requests on their behalf.
A mining company run by billionaire Gina Rinehart says that trademark complaints filed against Crikey which led to the temporary censorship of this outlet’s critical coverage of Australia’s richest woman were erroneously filed by a third party on its behalf as part of its efforts to stamp out fraudulent advertisements.
Private Media, the publisher of Crikey, The Mandarin and SmartCompany, has been the subject of repeated intellectual property complaints on behalf of 150 Investments Pty Ltd, a company that’s directors include the mining billionaire.
These complaints led to at least one article between temporarily taken offline by Amazon and the repeated restriction of Private Media’s use of Meta’s advertising platform as the tech companies assessed the complaint.
Complaints were submitted by James Christopher from Takedown Reporting on behalf of 150 Investments Pty Ltd against various articles on Crikey mentioning Rinehart for violating their trademark on “Gina Rinehart“.
These articles include “Heiress Gina Rinehart and the fine art of self-interested drivel”, Your Aussie friend and Trumpette!’: Gina Rinehart is an active member of Donald Trump’s female fan club” and “Big bumbling boy of Western civilisation classes up the AFR business awards”.
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