‘The strategy is to humiliate’: influencers and the ethics of ‘rage-bait machine’ street interviews

theguardian.com

Influencers from anti-abortion campaigners to anti-immigration activists are making online content out of interactions with Australians on the street. Experts say the ethics are murky Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast “She just kind of appeared in front of me … then she asked if I thought the unborn were human,” Emma Carson says. Carson was walking through Rundle Mall in Adelaide and thought the woman who approached her was a journalism student or a researcher. Continue reading...