Facebook pays overseas creators to post pro-Pauline Hanson content for Australians

Facebook pays overseas creators to post pro-Pauline Hanson content for Australians

A Guardian investigation found a woman in Indonesia getting paid by Facebook to post political content in a 'Team Pauline Hanson' group of 26,000 members. She says she does it for the money, not her beliefs. Facebook pays creators when their posts get lots of engagement — so its own payment system ends up funding foreign creators making political posts aimed at Australians.

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