The owner of Facebook and Instagram has allowed comments racially abusing Indigenous Australians ahead of the Voice to parliament referendum.
Social media giant Meta has refused to take action against people who post racist and abusive material online, which Aboriginal leaders say is rife as the No campaign against the Voice to parliament has mobilised.
“The No case is really emboldening the trolls and bigots. Our assembly Facebook page went from getting a handful of racist comments a week to our staff having to report and block hundreds of people every week,” Berg told this masthead on Wednesday. Last week, No campaign leader Nyunggai Warren Mundine approvingly shared an image on professional networking site, LinkedIn, showing a gun pointed at a person’s head and the words, “VOTE YES OR ELSE!!” in a speech bubble. The sleeve of the holder of the gun was adorned with a Soviet red and yellow hammer and sickle beside an Aboriginal flag.saying: “100% right”. Mundine did not respond to questions about the post.
“It should not be foregrounded in what we do, it has been an awful, awful cancer in so many ways on our relations to one another,” he said.The Uluru Dialogue on Monday released a statement condemning misinformation and racist jokes from the No campaign. The group is the collective of architects and authors of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, co-chaired by Voice co-designers Pat Anderson and Megan Davis.
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