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Over the past few weeks, public figures have questioned whether the online debate around the Voice to Parliament referendum was being manipulated. The Sydney Morning Herald’s Anthony Galloway reported on fascinating data showing that the anti-Voice side of the debate was being led by anonymous accounts (often using hate speech) but no evidence of bots. This spawned even more accusations that these accounts were being “bankrolled”, so I spoke to the source of the research, Queensland University of Technology senior lecturer Dr Timothy Graham about what he took away from the data.
WebCam: You found that there were a lot of accounts that have been created recently and ones that weren’t using their real name.
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