Dozens of campaigners who built substantial audiences during the COVID era by opposing Australia's pandemic response have turned their focus to undermining the Oct. 14 referendum to recognise the country's first inhabitants.
, uncertainty about the Voice's scope and a lackluster "Yes" campaign, the experts who spoke to Reuters said some of the decline can be attributed to misinformation.increased funding for third-party fact-checkers in July, but a month later 40% of posts from accounts flagged for sharing "misinformation or toxic narratives related to the referendum" went viral, according to previously unpublished research by Reset.Tech Australia reported by Reuters for the first time.
TikTok labelled or removed one-third of misleading posts, Reset.Tech said, the most proactive in the study. In relation to the referendum, Australia's Electoral Commission has seen "more false commentary about electoral processes spread in the information ecosystem than we've observed for previous electoral events", its media and digital director Evan Ekin-Smyth told Reuters.
"Covid seemed to awaken in people a complete distrust of authority and lack of confidence in the state," said David Heilpern, dean of the Southern Cross University law school, who studies anti-government movements. "It certainly will have an effect on the vote."A Qantas The Voice was proposed by Aboriginal leaders in 2017 as a step toward healing a national wound dating back to colonisation. Unlike Canada, the U.S. and New Zealand, Australia has no treaty with its Indigenous people, who make up about 3.2% of its population and lag national averages on socioeconomic measures.
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