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‘The strategy is just to humiliate’: concerns growing about ‘rage-bait machine’ street interview tactics

Digital media | The Guardian · Tory Shepherd · last updated

Influencers from anti-abortion campaigners to anti-immigration activists are making online content out of interactions with Australians on the street. Experts say the ethics are murky

“She just kind of appeared in front of me … then she asked if I thought the unborn were human,” Emma Carson says.

Carson was walking through Rundle Mall in Adelaide and thought the woman who approached her was a journalism student or a researcher.

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