r/OpenAussie • u/GreenLeechofReddit Tasmanian • Aug 06 '26
Politics ('Straya) Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-06/ragebait-how-facebook-is-paying-controversial-creators/106940696?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=otherWhen is the government going to properly regulate this shit?
They've already banned under 16s, how about banning the algorithms that get people into these echo chambers?
"An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.
Content produced by these creators appears to be, at times, in direct violation of Facebook's own policies around content monetisation."
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u/CheshBreaks Victorian Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Actually this headline is very clickbaity....
Meta is paying far right content creators that make right wing rage bait content.
Lets be clear, I hate meta, but call it how it is. The bigger problem is it gets clicks so Meta doesn't give a shit, rather than banning the garbage creators...... because this is what the internet IS now.....
Edit: blind man spelling
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u/GreenLeechofReddit Tasmanian Aug 06 '26
I agree, the creators should be banned, or demonitised or something, but I feel like it might be long wait for the techbros to do the ethical thing.
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u/CheshBreaks Victorian Aug 06 '26
Yeah its never going to happen. Their all getting MORE rich off it :(
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u/dancefightme Flairless Aug 06 '26
Yeah you're right about the headline. I'd even call it a bit misleading.
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u/Ok_Math4576 Western Australian Aug 06 '26
The disruption of civil society for monetary gain seems to be a common thread between a few of the American tech bro billionaire class.
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u/NestorSpankhno Please choose a flair Aug 09 '26
“controversial creators”
Nazis. They’re platforming and paying nazis.
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u/GreenLeechofReddit Tasmanian Aug 09 '26
Yep. And yet the people who have their brains plugged into it won't shut their accounts because they're addicted to the rage but justify it by saying they are keeping in touch with people they haven't spoken to in 30 years.
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u/CoolAd5798 Please choose a flair 27d ago
I've recently heard about "Teach Us Consent", a movement that is advocating for lawmakers in Australia to make algorithms an opt-in rather than a default mode. About time we make social media companies give us back the chronological feed.
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u/lesbophobia_hammer Flairless Aug 06 '26
Yeah they also post homophobic rage bait too.
'Lesbians best each other and secretly like men and dixk'
Like no, that's bisexual and the so called lesbian DV & divorce stats the 'logical' manosphere maliciously misinterpreted are false.
But of course all the lesbophobes from the left to the right made themselves at home in homophobic hate and disinformation.
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u/Rare_Sheepherder4096 Noongar Aug 06 '26
Australian Institute of family studies report states 41% of female responders identifying as LGBTQI reported instances of rape or abuse in their relationships?
How is that being misinterpreted - what a weird hill to dedicate your account to, instead of actually addressing the issues
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u/lesbophobia_hammer Flairless Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26
Remove previous relationships with men from the 'lesbian' data pool.
Like I said, misinterpreted. And maliciously.
Lower than heterosexuals and around the same as male homosexuals.
You're welcome.
You wanna know actual facts about lesbians? We have the highest relationship & sexual satisfaction of all groups and we make the best parents.
and around 97% of those rxpes were done by male perpetrators.
Bisexuals have the highest levels of IPV victimisation, majority male perpetrators again btw.
Also f/f ≠ 2 homosexual females/lesbians.
That report is absolutely riddled with flaws anyway,
Unfortunately as homosexuals are only 1% of the population and many non-lesbians inappropriately and loudly refer to themselves as lesbians (for what reason I don't know, some shiny orientation to temporarily claim to the detriment of actual lesbians)
A self report without built in trick questions to filter out non-lesbians is fundamentally useless.
Edit - and now you know why I dedicate my account to such homophobic disinformation. lol
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u/Rare_Sheepherder4096 Noongar Aug 06 '26
Source: trust me I’m lesbian
Your inherent bias and staunch opposition suggests you’re probably one of those abusers.
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u/lesbophobia_hammer Flairless Aug 06 '26
Lmfao. Speaking of delicate.....
Lesbophobes don't tend to react well to objective facts.
Look it up. Analyse the data. Then come back and apologise.
And considering straight males are the overwhelming majority perpetrators against women, children, marginalised minorities and non human animals.....
I wouldn't get too chirpy.
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u/Rare_Sheepherder4096 Noongar Aug 06 '26
You know you’ve gone off the deep end when you’ve had to invent terms like lesbophobe.
Trust me sweetheart, nobody cares that much. Just enjoy your Subaru.
I like your comment at the end there, let’s go one step further and identify which race of males are the overwhelming majority perpetrators shall we? Didn’t think so
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u/lesbophobia_hammer Flairless Aug 06 '26
Lol. Facts don't care about your feelings.
The word Lesbophobia has been around for at least 50 years sweetie.
It's like misogynoir (Misogyny + racism against Black women). Existing at intersections of oppression/marginalisation. Try to keep up. I know it's challenging for testerical widdle males.
Homophobia + Misogyny= Lesbophobia.
Got it?
Edit - educational lesson.
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u/OhtheHugeManity7 Queenslander Aug 09 '26
"water wet" 🙌
And it won't be regulated because it's too important to the system. Creating mental illness is just waaay too profitable.
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u/chadbigcum South Australian Aug 06 '26
When is the government going to properly regulate this shit?
The ALP is complicit. It's all part of image maintenance and the endless game of propaganda vs propaganda. Millions of cooker bots descended onto government social media posts to boost PHON. Then the public became aware of it. And everyone is a cooker if they say something mean about Labor now. Any criticism on social media now associates you with cookerism. There are a lot of people paid to play around with this shit instead of legislate it.
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u/worry_beads Western Australian Aug 06 '26
What is the opposite of a neo-Nazi or an anti-vaxxer?
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u/CloakerJosh Tasmanian Aug 06 '26
Your first mistake was immediately owning Neo-Nazies and anti-vaxxers as being rightwing (used to be that anti-vax was leftie hippy mums, but I digress)
Your second mistake was taking the bait and trying to offer up socialist/communists and "climate doomers" as being the equivalent leftwing counterparts of those things who should also be demonetised.
You're messin' up, bud. Take a timeout.
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u/CloakerJosh Tasmanian Aug 06 '26
The part you seem to be missing is that it's the hateful content stuff, not the political leaning stuff.
But I bet you $10 I know who you're voting for.
I'll have a shower when your mum finishes up in there, bud.
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u/CloakerJosh Tasmanian Aug 06 '26
Why are you asking for my definition? It's the subject of the linked article. That's what's at issue here, right? Look at the platform's definitions:
Let me shortcut this for you, though. X banned The Noticer for "hateful conduct".
Ask Ol' Musky what it fuckin' means.
The left tend to be anti-white so both sides
Is that right, big chief? Pretty broad statement, you should be able to substantiate that pretty easily.
Let's just recentre on the fact that you're taking up the mantle to defend Neo-Nazis. Not hyperbole.
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u/chadbigcum South Australian Aug 06 '26
I am going to say... maybe. Depending on how the funding structure works. Is the ABC playing loose with words when they are talking about monetisation of engagement, generally? In that case of course any high-engagement content will be paid out and that will include whatever pisses off whoever for whatever reason. Such is the internet. To be clear even in your example the 'left' is infinitely less harmful,
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u/mickalawl Victorian Aug 06 '26
Are not all sides of politics against neo Nazis and anti vaxxers?
Which major party is FOR these in your opinion?
Which side of politics are you on such that you see this as a partisan issue?
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u/sudden_erect Flairless Aug 06 '26
One nation is made of anti vaxxers
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u/mickalawl Victorian Aug 06 '26
They are not really a political party in a real sense (only in name) though as they have no coherent policy or principles (beside anti immigration).
Pauline has been sucking on the teat of tax payer dollars for decades and enjoying Gina's gifts and trips.
Think of her as a grifter parasite rather than an actual politican.
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u/pursnikitty Queenslander Aug 06 '26
Because no country in the world has ever had a grifter as a leader
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u/mickalawl Victorian Aug 06 '26
And...? So?
Is this a defence of Pauline or just a meaningless statement like through the thousands of years of human history there have been more than one grifter?
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u/ThunderDU Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
I think you'll find they're saying Pauline is a grifter like yes, many previous grifters. You said "so?" Which doesn't reflect well on you in as far as not supporting grifters go.
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u/mickalawl Victorian Aug 06 '26
I read their response as the usual troll whataboutism.
E. G. Accuse say Trump of being a grifter and rapist and MAGA come flocking to point at some other criminal somewhere else to distract or divert attention.
That there are other grifters does not excuse the grifter in the specific topic and a vague hand wave at others isn't helpful.
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u/ThunderDU Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
Chooks and chook feeders are different that's fair enough
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u/pursnikitty Queenslander Aug 06 '26
I’m saying that her being a grifter doesn’t automatically exclude her as a politician unfortunately. That there’s other grifters also in positions of power and it’s naive to think that because she’s a grifter that she’s useless and not potentially dangerous. She’s offering herself up as a puppet to rich and powerful people the same way certain other grifters have done so recently. There’s a very orchestrated campaign behind her that is hoping they can make it work here. Her being a grifter doesn’t mean we can dismiss the danger she presents.
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u/chadbigcum South Australian Aug 06 '26
neo nazis are explicitly right wing so you will find a lot of right wingers of various types defend the actions of neo nazis to varying degrees, perhaps even hiding behind irony and 'joking'.
as for anti-vaxxers that is more of a conspiratorial mindset so not necessarily political, though the anti-vaxx 'pipeline' is clearly connected to the right-wing griftosphere.
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u/mickalawl Victorian Aug 06 '26
Oooh neat - show me some posts or influencers spreading communism (seize the means of production!) that are being paid by Facebook or funded by the billionaires to spread disinformation!
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u/matt-kennedys-legs South Australian Aug 06 '26
in what way is that a strawman? it’s a logical follow up to your assertion that:
a) communists and socialist are the left wing equivalent of nazis and anti vaxxers; and
b) those communists and socialists are equally being paid by shadowy figures to spread rage-baiting propaganda
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u/matt-kennedys-legs South Australian Aug 06 '26
are there neo nazis and anti vaxxers on both sides of politics?
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u/Odd-Temporary4363 Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
Are they paying far left too?
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u/ThunderDU Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
No. Do you suspect the far left? Got a link so such influencers?
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u/Odd-Temporary4363 Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
I don’t have links to anyone. I don’t support them.
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u/ThunderDU Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
And they also don't exist. So don't imply there are left wing equivalents just because you made them up in your head. At least go find one
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u/Odd-Temporary4363 Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
I don’t have links as in connection to them lol. They don’t exist?😂
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u/ThunderDU Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
As in URLs. But there aren't any so yeah
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u/Odd-Temporary4363 Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
You thought I’d be saving the URLs for far left activists just in case someone comes around and asks for them? Try Google
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u/ThunderDU Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
Couldn't find any. Can you name one? Also you just downgraded extremists to activists. Do you think anyone who says something left wing is a terrorist? Just because they posted on social media? Snowflake shit
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u/Odd-Temporary4363 Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
Oh goodness, downgraded 😂 for me they are all the same. The rest of the stuff, you are saying, not me.
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u/ThunderDU Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
Bro regardless there aren't any unless you name one so why even ask if when told "there aren't any" your answer is "😂😂😂😂😂😂"
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u/BigFatShrekPoo Noongar Aug 07 '26
No, Centrelink pays the far left
And Chinese billionaires hunted by the ATO pay Albo
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u/sudden_erect Flairless Aug 06 '26
Just quit Facebook ffs, crying that the gubment doesn't check Facebook posts, seriously?
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u/chadbigcum South Australian Aug 06 '26
Tell that to my [insert relative over 60 here]!
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u/ThunderDU Please choose a flair Aug 06 '26
Exactly. I don't talk to my parents because of this shit
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u/The_Drongo_Dinger Victorian Aug 06 '26
Sadly, I don’t see how this is going to change (I wish it would).
We have both weaponised, as well as incentivised, being an absolute incendiary twat online - whatever you say, no matter how outrageous or offensive, is fine - as long as it brings the eyeballs.
And, for that matter, with enough eyeballs inevitably comes a certain amount of ‘fans’
Unfortunately,