‘Disinformania’ has taken over the internet - can ‘no’ voice opportunists maintain control of an unleashed far right flank? | Van Badham

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨anathema_device@kbin.social⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/27/voice-to-parliament-referendum-disinformania-no-campaign-australia-far-right

Yes campaigners get baited by bad-faith provocations, while some in the no camp point directly to this online madness confusing the too-time-poor-for-politics

The Indigenous voice to parliament proposal is not a secret UN plot to steal Australian land. It is not a proposal for a “third chamber of parliament”. It is also not a conspiracy to stop dairy farming, impose “backdoor communism”, force people to listen to rap music or start a new religion … though I have been told all these things on social media this past fortnight.

Welcome to Disinformania; Australia, you’re standing in it.

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veroxii@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
FFS. Old people should get off Facebook and young people should get tiktok.

They’re poison.

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ElZoido@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This really smells like a Cambridge Analytica operation.

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dalekerrigan@aussie.zone [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Hey, just a little nudge, if you’re keen to chat about the Voice to Parliament, we’ve got this corker of a megathread where we can all have a good chinwag in one spot. But if you’re not up for that, no worries, it’s business as usual. Gotta keep things fair dinkum!

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