‘The strategy is to humiliate’: influencers and the ethics of ‘rage-bait machine’ street interviews
Influencers from anti-abortion campaigners to anti-immigration activists are making online content out of interactions with Australians on the street. Experts say the ethics are murky
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“She just kind of appeared in front of me … then she asked if I thought the unborn were human,” Emma Carson says.
Carson was walking through Rundle Mall in Adelaide and thought the woman who approached her was a journalism student or a researcher.
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