Facebook, Fortnite and FREE TAFE: nowhere to hide for voters in the Australian election campaign | The shadow campaign

Peter Dutton has been noisy in recent weeks in calling out Labor’s “dirt unit”, a “sledge-a-thon” and “industrial-scale” personal attacks from the government as the campaign heats up. But he might want to have a word with his campaign headquarters, given his criticism of Labor’s “nasty negative ads”. On the Liberal party’s main Facebook page, as of Friday, nearly every one of the 300-odd versions of ads currently running is negative, anti-Labor content. They are promoting party websites such as “labor.fail”, accusing Labor of “BROKEN PROMISES”, and boosting personal attacks on the Labor MP Anne Stanley (“a member of the

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