The state Nationals leader is also suing
Google for not removing two
YouTube videos posted by the comedian whose real name is Jordan Shanks
The New South Wales deputy premier, John Barilaro, is suing the YouTube comedian Jordan Shanks for defamation.
In a statement of claim lodged in the federal court on Thursday, lawyers for Barilaro say Shanks, a former male model who uses the nom de plume Friendlyjordies in his popular YouTube videos, defamed the deputy premier in a series of “vile and racist” videos that had brought him into “public disrepute, odium, ridicule and contempt”.