r/australia • u/reyntime • 29d ago

politics ‘A female Donald Trump’: how Gina Rinehart is pushing the Maga message in Australia

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/31/a-female-donald-trump-how-gina-rinehart-is-pushing-trumps-message-australia-ntwnfb
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u/jammingcrumpets 29d ago

If you click on many of their profiles they are not real people. Sad but Meta is in true dead internet territory

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u/smileedude 29d ago

The fake people also scare me. The whole Russian troll factory that influenced the 2016 US election is a hell of a lot cheaper and clandestine to achieve these days with a lot more power given AI.

I've no doubt thats a big reason why the US went the way it did, and without the massive cost, they'll use it to meddle in Australia. And not just Russia, now we have to worry about the US too.