Former prime minister Tony Abbott is among a group of advisers to a conservative lobby group that last month was found to have published false information about the Voice to Parliament proposal in Facebook ads.
Advance Australia was accused of spreading false information about the Voice to Parliament on FacebookThe AEC ruled that Advance Australia breached electoral laws with its ads about Zali Steggall and David Pocock
That claim was flagged as false information by one of Facebook's fact-checking partners, RMIT University."We spoke to some of the country's leading constitutional and legal experts. And in their view, the proposal for the Voice to Parliament did not confer any rights on anyone, much less special rights."
"This attempt by big tech to censor one side of the debate, of the argument, is all part of the profound unfairness," he said in an interview with 2GB radio. "In my experience, Advance Australia has form in running very divisive and fairly misleading campaigns, in a fairly underhanded way as well," said Ms Steggall, who is pushing for a ban on false political ads.
"When they asked us to take the material down after pressure from David Pocock and the media, we did so," it said.
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