Country’s democracy at risk by actions that can ‘affect electoral outcomes’, says submission to
Senate inquiry
Financially motivated actors from Kosovo, Albania and the Republic of North Macedonia used nationalistic and Islamophobic content to target and manipulate
Australian Facebook users during the 2019
election, according to analysts from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).
Ahead of public hearings on Monday scheduled by the Senate’s select committee on foreign interference through
Social Media, a submission from ASPI says it has found influence operations relating to Indonesia’s West Papua independence movement, Kashmir, and People’s Republic of
China operations targeted at various political dissidents and the anti-extradition
protests in Hong Kong.