‘Punitive’ new guidelines limit what ABC staff can say on social media and in private messages, union says

The ABC has introduced new social media guidelines for staff, two months after it lost an unlawful termination case against Antoinette Lattouf. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

The journalists’ union has labelled the ABC’s new social media policy “punitive” and urged its management to come up with another set of rules in consultation with staff.

The Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance (MEAA) on Thursday criticised the public broadcaster for its new “public comment guidelines” which limit what staff can express and categorises well-known journalists as “high-risk”.