Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Tuesday 5 November 2019
Facebook Inc being exposed as placing advertising revenue ahead of safeguarding democratic election campaign processes
https://youtu.be/1iCVn_JvOiQ
The New York Times, 30 October 2019:
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Not in the Cold War, not during Vietnam, not during Watergate did I ever fear more for my country.
If America's worst enemies had spent years designing a plan to erode our greatest strengths, they could not have done better than what some of our fellow citizens are doing to the country every day for short-term financial or political gain.
Prominent figures in government, politics and commerce are behaving in ways that are so destructive of the core institutions and norms that underpin our democracy, one can only assume that they take the country's stability as a given -- that they can abuse and stress it all they want and it won't break.
They are wrong. We can break America, and right now we're on our way there. Not in the Cold War, not during Vietnam, not during Watergate did I ever fear more for my country.
This moment "is like Wall Street before the financial crisis, when everyone just took for granted that the system was forever stable," remarked Gautam Mukunda, research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of "Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter."
"So they kept taking bigger and bigger risks and pushing it harder and harder -- until they pushed too hard and it crashed and the government had to step in and rescue everyone. If they keep acting like this, Trump and his allies will keep getting short-term wins until the system crashes. Only there won't be any government to step in and rescue them, because they'll have broken it -- and the country along with it."
What am I talking about? I'm talking about a president willing to sink to banana republic governing norms, including withholding aid to Ukraine to compel its leadership to investigate his political rival.
I'm talking about Republican lawmakers who know that the president's Ukraine machinations are indefensible and impeachable, particularly after Tuesday's disclosures by Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, that he personally heard President Trump appeal to Ukraine's president to investigate Joe Biden.
Republicans now have a clear choice: let the constitutional impeachment process proceed or attack the process, i.e., our legislative-judicial order. Alas, a majority seem to be opting for the latter.
They justify it with daily new conspiracy theories amplified by Fox News. They even stormed a secure room in the Capitol to mislead the public into thinking these hearings are totally one-sided -- when in fact both Democratic and Republican lawmakers and lawyers from the relevant committees are doing the questioning.
In attacking all the diplomats, intelligence officers and civil servants who have stepped forward, at great professional risk, to bear witness against Trump, they are attacking the people who uphold the regulations -- and provide the independent research and facts -- that make our government legitimate and the envy of people all over the world, where many people have to bribe government workers for service.
And, finally, there's the internet barons who for too long ignored the weaponization of social media, which is turning our free press into a house of mirrors, where citizens can no longer cognitively discern fact from fiction and make informed judgments essential for democracy.
I watch it all and wonder: "Are you really doing that? Do you all go home at night to some offshore island where the long-term damage you're doing to America doesn't matter?"
And what's even more frightening is that there are now so many incentives in place in media and politics -- from gerrymandering to unlimited campaign contributions to data systems that can ever more perfectly define us, divide us and subdivide us -- to ensure that these people will keep on hammering our system until they smash it to pieces.
Look at Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who was questioned last Wednesday at a House hearing by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. A.O.C. was trying to grasp why Zuckerberg thinks it's O.K. for politicians to run political ads that contain obvious lies, as the Trump campaign has already done in a Facebook ad about Biden viewed by some five million Facebook users.
This is all about money for Zuckerberg, but he disguises his motives in some half-baked theory about freedom of the press -- so half-baked that he couldn't explain it even when he knew he would be asked about it by a congressional committee.
Read it and weep:
A.O.C.: "Could I run ads targeting Republicans in primaries saying they voted for the Green New Deal?"
M.Z.: "Can you repeat that?"
A.O.C.: "Would I be able to run advertisements on Facebook targeting Republicans in primaries saying they voted for the Green New Deal? If you're not fact-checking political advertisements, I'm trying to understand the bounds here of what's fair game."
M.Z.: "I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head."
A.O.C.: "Do you see a potential problem here with a complete lack of fact-checking on political advertisements?"
M.Z.: "Congresswoman, I think lying is bad. I think if you were to run an ad that had a lie, that would be bad. That's different from it being -- in our position, the right thing to prevent your constituents or people in an election from seeing that you had lied."
A.O.C.: "So you won't take down lies or you will take down lies? It's a pretty simple yes or no."
M.Z.: "Congresswoman, in most cases, in a democracy, I believe people should be able to see for themselves what politicians they may or may not vote for are saying and judge their character for themselves."
Yeah, right, as if average citizens are able to discern the veracity of every political ad after years of being conditioned by responsible journalism to assume the claims aren't just made up.
Just once I'd like to see Zuckerberg look into a camera and say: "I will take Facebook stock down to $1 if that is what it takes to ensure that we're never again an engine for the perversion of democracy in any country, starting with my own. Facebook is not going to accept any more political ads until we have the resources to fact-check them all."
I doubt he'll do that, though, because his priorities are profits and power, and he seems quite ready to hurt American democracy to get them......
Labels:
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Tuesday 25 June 2019
Governments must not allow private, profit-seeking parties such as Facebook Inc.to put the entire global financial system at risk
Wikipedia, 22 June 2019:
A cryptocurrency (or crypto
currency) is a digital asset designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses strong cryptography to secure financial
transactions, control the creation of additional units, and verify the transfer
of assets. Cryptocurrencies
use decentralized control as opposed to centralized
digital currency and central banking systems……
As the popularity of and
demand for online currencies has increased since the inception of bitcoin in
2009, so have concerns that such an unregulated person to person global
economy that cryptocurrencies offer may become a threat to society.
Concerns
abound that altcoins may become tools for anonymous web criminals.
Cryptocurrency networks
display a lack of regulation that has been criticized as enabling criminals who
seek to evade taxes and launder
money.
The Guardian, 22 June 2019:
Facebook is developing
Libra from a base in Switzerland, in partnership with 27 other corporations –
including Mastercard, Paypal, Uber and Vodafone – collectively known as the
Libra Association.
Financial Review, 21 June 2019:
Facebook has just
unveiled its latest bid for world domination: Libra,
a cryptocurrency designed to function as private money anywhere on the planet. In
preparing the venture, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been in negotiations
with central banks, regulators, and 27 partner companies, each of which will
contribute at least $US10 million. For fear of raising safety concerns,
Facebook has avoided working directly with any commercial banks.
Zuckerberg seems to
understand that technological innovation alone will not ensure Libra’s success.
He also needs a commitment from governments to enforce the web of contractual
relations underpinning the currency, and to endorse the use of their own
currencies as collateral. Should Libra ever face a run, central banks would be
obliged to provide liquidity.
The question is whether
governments understand the risks to financial stability that such a system
would entail. The idea of a private, frictionless payment system with 2.6
billion active users may sound attractive. But as every banker and monetary
policymaker knows, payment systems require a level of liquidity backstopping
that no private entity can provide.
Unlike states, private
parties must operate within their means, and cannot unilaterally impose
financial obligations on others as needed. That means they cannot rescue
themselves; they must be bailed out by states, or be permitted to fail.
Moreover, even when it comes to states, currency pegs offer only an illusion of
safety. Plenty of countries have had to break such pegs, always while insisting
that “this time is different”.
What sets Facebook apart
from other issuers of “private money” is its size, global reach, and
willingness to “move fast and break things.” It is easy to imagine a scenario
in which rescuing Libra could require more liquidity than any one state could
provide. Recall Ireland after the 2008 financial crisis. When the government
announced that it would assume the private banking sector’s liabilities, the
country plunged into a sovereign debt crisis. Next to
a behemoth like Facebook,
many nation-states could end up looking a lot like Ireland.
Facebook is barreling
ahead as if Libra was just another private enterprise. But like many other
financial intermediaries before it, the company is promising something that it
cannot possibly deliver on its own: the protection of the currency’s value.
Libra, we are told, will be pegged to a basket of currencies (fiat money issued
by governments), and convertible on demand and at any cost. But this guarantee
rests on an illusion, because neither Facebook nor any other private party
involved will have access to unlimited stores of the pegged currencies…..
Thursday 2 May 2019
Dozens of Centrelink clients have had their names published on Facebook by a Commonwealth-funded work-for-the-dole provider
ABC
News, 26
April 2019:
Dozens of Centrelink
clients have had their names published online in what has been described as a
"shocking" abuse of privacy.
A Commonwealth-funded
work-for-the-dole provider uploaded lists of people who were required to attend
client meetings to a public Facebook page.
"We are at a loss
as to why anyone would post about workers' appointments online," union
official Lara Watson said.
"We were shocked at
the publication of names on a social media platform."
The incidents are the
latest to emerge from the Government's flagship remote employment scheme, the
Community Development Programme (CDP).
Nearly 50 people from
the Northern Territory community of Galiwinku, located 500 kilometres east of
Darwin, were affected.
The job service
provider, the Arnhem Land Progress Association (ALPA), established the social
media page apparently with the intention of uploading such lists.
"Welcome to our
Facebook page where we will be posting appointments, courses and CDP
information," it wrote last month.
The two sheets of names
were posted to the Galiwinku CDP page on March 11 and 12.
Both images were shared
to another local Facebook group titled Elcho Island Notice Board, which has
more than 2,000 members.
One CDP insider
denounced the online uploads, saying they were unprecedented and could have
placed job seekers at risk.
"If a person has a
family violence order in place to protect them, then perhaps the perpetrator
would know where she was," said the source, who requested anonymity.
"It advertised that
a person is accessing welfare services, and unfortunately in Australia there's
discrimination against people accessing welfare services.
"People can be
bullied for being unemployed."
The Galiwinku CDP page
appears to have since been removed from the internet but the organisation
denied any wrongdoing.
"We do not believe
that this is a breach of confidentiality," an ALPA spokeswoman said.....
"All ALPA CDP
participants give … media consent when they commence as a participant."......
Wednesday 1 May 2019
FaceBook Inc's role in Brexit and why it matters
Labels:
British democracy,
electoral fraud,
European Union,
Facebook,
history,
propaganda
Facebook spends more than a decade expressing contrition for its actions and avowing its commitment to people’s privacy – but refuses constructive action
“It is
untenable that organizations are allowed to reject my office’s legal findings
as mere opinions. Facebook should not get to decide what Canadian privacy law
does or does not require.” [Canandian Privacy Commissioner Daniel
Therrien, 25 April 2019]
Facbook Inc. professes that it has taken steps to ensure the intregrity of political discourse on its platform, but rather tellingly will not roll out transparency features in Australia that it has already rolled out in the US, UK, Eu, India, Israel and Ukraine.
The only measure it commits to taking during this federal election campaign is to temporarily ban people outside Australiabuying ads that Facebook determines are “political”.
So it should come as no surprise that Canada issued this three page news release…….
Office of the Privacy Commission of
Canada, news
release, 25 April 2019:
Facebook refuses to
address serious privacy deficiencies despite public apologies for “breach of
trust”
Joint investigation
finds major shortcomings in the social media giant’s privacy practices,
highlighting pressing need for legislative reform to adequately protect the
rights of Canadians
OTTAWA, April 25,
2019 – Facebook committed serious contraventions of Canadian privacy laws
and failed to take responsibility for protecting the personal information of
Canadians, an investigation has found.
Despite its public
acknowledgement of a “major breach of trust” in the Cambridge Analytica
scandal, Facebook disputes the investigation findings of the Privacy
Commissioner of Canada and the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British
Columbia. The company also refuses to implement recommendations to address
deficiencies.
“Facebook’s refusal to
act responsibly is deeply troubling given the vast amount of sensitive personal
information users have entrusted to this company,” says Privacy Commissioner of
Canada Daniel Therrien. “Their privacy framework was empty, and their vague
terms were so elastic that they were not meaningful for privacy protection.
“The stark contradiction
between Facebook’s public promises to mend its ways on privacy and its refusal
to address the serious problems we’ve identified – or even acknowledge that it
broke the law – is extremely concerning.”
“Facebook has spent more
than a decade expressing contrition for its actions and avowing its commitment
to people’s privacy,” B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Michael McEvoy
says, “but when it comes to taking concrete actions needed to fix transgressions
they demonstrate disregard.”
Commissioner McEvoy says
Facebook’s actions point to the need for giving provincial and federal privacy
regulators stronger sanctioning power in order to protect the public’s
interests. “The ability to levy meaningful fines would be an important starting
point,” he says.
The findings and
Facebook’s rejection of the report’s recommendations highlight critical
weaknesses within the current Canadian privacy protection framework and
underscore an urgent need for stronger privacy laws, according to both
Commissioners.
“It is untenable that
organizations are allowed to reject my office’s legal findings as mere
opinions,” says Commissioner Therrien.
In addition to the power
to levy financial penalties on companies, both Commissioners say they should
also be given broader authority to inspect the practices of organizations to
independently confirm privacy laws are being respected. This measure would be
in alignment with the powers that exist in the U.K. and several other countries.
Giving the federal
Commissioner order-making powers would also ensure that his findings and
remedial measures are binding on organizations that refuse to comply with the
law.
The complaint that
initiated the investigation followed media reports that Facebook had allowed an
organization to use an app to access users’ personal information and that some
of the data was then shared with other organizations, including Cambridge
Analytica, which was involved in U.S. political campaigns.
The app, at one point
called “This is Your Digital Life,” encouraged users to complete a personality
quiz. It collected information about users who installed the app as well as
their Facebook “friends.” Some 300,000 Facebook users worldwide added the app,
leading to the potential disclosure of the personal information of
approximately 87 million others, including more than 600,000 Canadians.
The investigation
revealed Facebook violated federal and B.C. privacy laws in a number of
respects. The specific deficiencies include:
Unauthorized access
Facebook’s superficial
and ineffective safeguards and consent mechanisms resulted in a third-party
app’s unauthorized access to the information of millions of Facebook users.
Some of that information was subsequently used for political purposes.
Lack of meaningful
consent from “friends of friends”
Facebook failed to
obtain meaningful consent from both the users who installed the app as well as
those users’ “friends,” whose personal information Facebook also disclosed.
No proper oversight over
privacy practices of apps
Facebook did not
exercise proper oversight with respect to the privacy practices of apps on its
platform. It relied on contractual terms with apps to protect against
unauthorized access to user information; however, its approach to monitoring
compliance with those terms was wholly inadequate.
Overall lack of
responsibility for personal information
A basic principle of
privacy laws is that organizations are responsible for the personal information
under their control. Instead, Facebook attempted to shift responsibility for
protecting personal information to the apps on its platform, as well as to
users themselves.
The failures identified
in the investigation are particularly concerning given that a 2009
investigation of Facebook by the federal Commissioner’s office also found
contraventions with respect to seeking overly broad, uninformed consent for
disclosures of personal information to third-party apps, as well as inadequate
monitoring to protect against unauthorized access by those apps.
If Facebook had
implemented the 2009 investigation’s recommendations meaningfully, the risk of
unauthorized access and use of Canadians’ personal information by third party
apps could have been avoided or significantly mitigated.
Facebook’s refusal to
accept the Commissioners’ recommendations means there is a high risk that the
personal information of Canadians could be used in ways that they do not know
or suspect, exposing them to potential harms.
Given the extent and
severity of the issues identified, the Commissioners sought to implement
measures to ensure the company respects its accountability and other privacy
obligations in the future. However, Facebook refused to voluntarily submit to
audits of its privacy policies and practices over the next five years.
The Office of the
Privacy Commissioner of Canada plans to take the matter to Federal Court to
seek an order to force the company to correct its privacy practices.
The Office of the
Information and Privacy Commissioner for B.C. reserves its right under
the Personal Information Protection Act to consider future actions
against Facebook.
Related documents:
* Note: my yellow highlighting
Nor should this alleged 'mistake' made by Facebook cause surprise.......
The
New York Times,
25 April 2019:
SAN FRANCISCO — The New
York State attorney general’s office plans to open an investigation into
Facebook’s unauthorized collection of more than 1.5 million users’ email
address books, according to two people briefed on the matter.
The inquiry concerns a practice
unearthed in April in which Facebook harvested the email contact lists of a
portion of new users who signed up for the network after 2016, according to the
two people, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the inquiry had not
been officially announced.
Those lists were then
used to improve Facebook’s ad-targeting algorithms and other friend connections
across the network.
The investigation was
confirmed late Thursday afternoon by the attorney general’s office.
“Facebook has repeatedly
demonstrated a lack of respect for consumers’ information while at the same
time profiting from mining that data,” said Letitia James, the attorney general
of New York, in a statement. “It is time Facebook is held accountable for how
it handles consumers’ personal information.”…
Users were not notified
that their contact lists were being harvested at the time. Facebook shuttered
the contact list collection mechanism shortly after the issue was discovered by
the press…..
Facebook Inc's rapacious business practices has been the death of online privacy and now threatens the democratic process.
Labels:
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Internet,
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privacy,
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Wednesday 13 March 2019
NSW Liberals behaving badly in March 2019 state election campaign
ABC
News, 9 March
2019:
A NSW Liberal Party
candidate has had her personal Facebook account suspended, after it was linked
to fake accounts that trolled her opponent.
Sitting Labor MP for
Port Stephens, Kate Washington, last week claimed that for the past
six months fake Facebook accounts had been deriding her, but praising her
Liberal rival Jaimie Abbott.
The Liberal Party last
week denied any involvement, but yesterday conceded Facebook suspended Ms
Abbott's account as well as the account of parliamentary staffer Tasman Brown.
Mr Brown works for
Liberal MLC Catherine Cusack.
Ms Washington said Ms
Abbott should be disendorsed for what she said were dirty tactics…..
The Liberal Party has
denied Ms Abbott had any knowledge of the fake Facebook accounts, and it is
blaming Mr Brown.
Ms Abbott told the ABC
she was deeply saddened about the incident and felt many were misled.
"Elections should
be a contest of ideas rather than a race for likes on social media, and I think
that Tasman [Brown] forgot about this," she said.
"Tasman has
admitted to me that as a volunteer on my campaign he was responsible for making
multiple Facebook posts about the campaign under a number of names."
The Liberal candidate
said she had called Ms Washington to apologise on behalf of her campaign and
assured her that Mr Brown would have no further involvement in it.
"I intend to focus
on continuing to campaign on issues that are important to this community,"
she said.
Opposition Leader
Michael Daley said the trolling was a "new low" in Australian
politics.
"This is
Putin-style politics in Australia, it's not acceptable and I think that the
position of the Premier's candidate in Port Stephens is untenable," he
said.....
Mr Brown is employed
under Liberal MLC Ms Cusack, who said she was incredibly disappointed.
"He [Mr Brown]
realises that it's been a huge mistake, it's an embarrassment and all I can say
is he's very full of remorse and he's stepped completely aside from anything to
do with the Port Stephens campaign," she said.
Ms Cusack said Ms
Abbott's personal Facebook account was suspended only because it was linked to
Mr Brown.
She said Mr Brown had
administration rights to Ms Abbott's personal account to help with her social
media campaign ahead of this month's state election.
Ms Washington has asked
the clerk of the NSW Parliament to investigate whether Mr Brown's online
activities violated any breach of parliamentary resources.....
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This is Karyn & one of her kids. Karyn is handing out flyers for her husband @jeromelaxale. In what universe is it ok for the Libs to surround her in this way? This sort of behaviour has to stop. #nswpol #nswvotes @GladysB @nswliberalhq pic.twitter.com/5UfLszKStC— Penny Sharpe (@PennySharpemlc) March 9, 2019
Sunday 3 March 2019
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Inc failing to protect Australian voters from malicious or false flag sites
PHOTO: This sponsored post caught the attention of the AEC due to it failing to disclose who paid for the advertisement on Facebook. (Supplied) |
ABC News, 26 February 2019:
It became known as Mark
Zuckerberg's "apology tour" — a string of contrite appearances before
politicians in Washington and Brussels last year, where the Facebook founder
vowed to stop the spread of fake news and voter manipulation on his platform.
"From now on, every
advertiser who wants to run political or issue ads will need to be authorised.
To get authorised, advertisers will need to confirm their identity and
location," told a US Senate committee in April last year.
"We're starting in
the US and expanding to the rest of the world in the coming months."
But internal documents
obtained by the ABC reveal a very different message coming from Facebook's
Australian headquarters.
Just months after Mr
Zuckerberg's testimony, the social media giant was pushing back against efforts
by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) to identify the users behind
potentially illegal political ads.
Almost a year later and
on the eve of the federal election, Facebook is yet to bring its new
authorisation rules for political ads to Australia.
The threat of political
interference on social media during the campaign has become so serious that the
AEC has warned Facebook and Twitter they face court-ordered injunctions if they
cannot remove illegal political ads.
Facebook's attitude
revealed in FOI documents
The surprisingly
informal, somewhat haphazard, relationship between the AEC and Facebook is laid
bare in a series of emails and other documents obtained as part of freedom of
information application.
The AEC contacted
Facebook after it became concerned about a mysterious group called Hands Off
Our Democracy, which was paying for sponsored posts attacking left-wing groups
and political parties last year.
On July 4 last year, AEC
lawyer Andrew Johnson told Facebook's senior counsel Sophie Malloch in an email
that the commission had received a complaint regarding Hands Off Our
Democracy's Facebook page, which "does not contain an authorisation to
indicate who is responsible for the page".
"Can you please
advise who is responsible for the Hands Off Our Democracy Page and their
contact details," Mr Johnson wrote.
"If this is not
possible, we ask that this Facebook page is blocked or removed until it
complies with the authorisation requirements in the Electoral Act."
Under changes introduced
to the act last year, all online advertisements that deal with electoral
matters must include the name and address of a person responsible for the ad.
The Hands Off Our
Democracy Facebook page carried no information about who was behind the group,
and a post on its own website made clear that its members had chosen to remain
anonymous.
Facebook initially
appeared willing to help the AEC make sure those ads carried the required
authorisation, but did not provide the AEC with any information about who was
behind the page.
"I passed this
along to our govt case work team as an urgent escalation to see what can be
done about this page, including whether it can be geoblocked until an
authorisation is included," Ms Malloch wrote in her reply to Mr Johnson.
But five days later, Ms
Malloch sent a follow-up email, brushing aside the AEC's concerns.
"The Hands Off
Democracy page appears to contain organic user content, rather than advertising
paid for through Facebook's online advertising process, and does not seem to
require authorisation," she wrote.
"If you have a
different view please let me know."
Mr Johnson responded by
sending a screenshot of a sponsored post by Hands Off Our Democracy, which
attacked The Greens and the activist group GetUp! and did not include the
correct authorisation.
"The Australian
Greens and GetUp! are against laws strengthening our national security. Why?
BECAUSE THEY WANT THEIR FOREIGN DONATIONS," the ad reads.
Mr Johnson said the
screenshot indicated the group's page "has (or did have) sponsored
content".
A series of email
exchanges between Mr Johnson and Ms Malloch followed, in which the pair
discussed whether the page should carry authorisation information.
But before the AEC's
concerns were addressed, Hands Off Our Democracy's page disappeared from
Facebook.
Finally, on August 14 —
more than a month after the matter was raised with Facebook — Ms Malloch
conceded that the page was indeed paying for ads.
"It appears that
this page was removed by the administrator before we could take any action, but
yes you are correct — the "sponsored" posts were ads," she wrote….
Australians 'interested
in Donald Trump' targeted with ads.
PHOTO: Some ads were targeted toward Australians 'interested in Donald Trump.' (Supplied) |
PHOTO: The Hands Off Democracy page also sponsored conspiracy posts about US billionaire George Soros. (Supplied) |
Newcastle
Herald, 27
February 2019:
Facebook is
investigating a complaint from Port Stephens Labor MP Kate Washington who
has alleged fake accounts are being used to manipulate the electoral
process.
Ms Washington has
written to the Clerk of the NSW Parliament calling for an investigation into
the four accounts, which she suspects may be controlled by a Liberal Party
supporter.
The accounts, which
appear to be owned by local constituents, have been posting in sync with
Liberal Party announcements in the Port Stephens electorate in recent weeks.
The Newcastle
Herald sent direct messages to the accounts on Monday morning seeking to
speak with account owners.
After advising a staff
member of Port Stephens Liberal Duty MLC Catherine Cusack of Ms Washington's
complaint at lunchtime on Tuesday three of the four accounts responded to
the Herald within an hour.
None of the profile
users was prepared to speak with the Herald.
One of accounts, which
appeared to be operated by a woman who said she had campaigned tirelessly for
residents in the Red Zone, was deleted on Tuesday afternoon.
Another account was
deleted on Wednesday night.
So-called social media
trolling and claims of harassment, from both major parties, have become common
place in recent state and federal election campaigns.
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elections 2019,
Facebook,
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