Exclusive: leading no campaigner Warren Mundine attacks social media giant after Institute of Public Affairs posts are taken down
The IPA claimed that “large foreign-owned corporations deciding how a domestic vote is debated” could amount to “foreign interference” and asked Albanese to amend the Broadcasting Services Act to apply to social media and prevent the “censoring” of referendum material., which owns YouTube, categorised the IPA video as political advertising because it contained footage of politicians, including Albanese and Peter Dutton.
The IPA’s deputy executive director, Daniel Wild, claimed its posts were not campaign ads, but instead research and policy reports. “At no time has IPA received a fulsome explanation from Facebook/Meta for the targeted censoring of our research content. It seems only when instances of big tech censorship are covered in the media have the relevant social media platforms scrambled to explain their censorship policies,” he told Guardian Australia.
Wild called on Facebook and Google to “make a public pledge” to provide “fair and equal access” to both the yes and no sides of the referendum.
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