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Feb 19 4 tweets 1 min read
The Liberal Party is targeting its toxic attack ads at males on Facebook.

Happily for Scott Morrison, the press gallery spent the entire week advertising the same Liberal Party #CampaignComms for free.

theguardian.com/australia-news…
the Guardian could have chosen a picture of Liberal Party politicians for the thumbnail on a story about Liberal Party attack ads. But they chose to publish the attack ads - for free - instead. This is how it works.
for the 2019 election, the corporate press advertised Liberal Party death tax lies every single day. We are still three months out from the 2022 election and already they are obediently enabling and facilitating the Liberal Party campaign.
there is nothing new about the Liberal Party seeding lies about opposition policy on Facebook and running their campaigns on a nasty mix of vicious xenophobia and toxic masculinity. They have seen it all before. It is a choice to keep backing Coalition governments into power.

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