2026-07-24
Fighting One Nation's AI Slop with people-powered activism
By Senator Larissa Waters
In this edition, Larissa takes on the billionaire-funded AI trash flooding our comment threads to fuel right-wing racism and division, unpacking Pauline Hanson’s “fact-finding” tour of the UK, and reminding us all that we have the power to defeat corporate greed and change the system. Permanently.
Have you looked at your social media feeds lately? It is absolutely wild out there.
We are being completely inundated by an onslaught of foreign-backed AI slop, deepfakes, and automated bots.
It’s a digital tsunami of trash intentionally designed to do two things: (1) artificially boost One Nation, and (2) flood our comment threads with racism, hate and division.
Let’s be clear: this stuff is not from real people with genuine concerns about their future, their children’s future, and the status quo in this country.
It is a highly orchestrated, billionaire-funded campaign designed to crowd out our voices: Green voices. Progressive voices. Your voices.
It is a mass propaganda campaign to stop people from looking at the real crisis: extreme wealth inequality caused by the billionaires and big corporations who make up the 1% – and who continue to get richer and richer from it.
You don’t need me to tell you how dangerous this playbook has been globally.
Pauline Hanson recently jetted off to Europe: seen holidaying in Italy with Gina Rinehart, attending a Dolce & Gabbana fashion show, and travelling on to the UK on a “fact-finding” mission.
The experts she chose to meet with?
A billionaire ex-pop star, a multi-millionaire MP whose party welcomes fascists and white supremacists as members, and a far-right activist even Nigel Farage won’t speak to.
This is more of the same for Pauline Hanson. She wants a monoculture, mass deportations, and thinks everything started to go wrong in Australia when the White Australia Policy ended; we know, she’s been telling us for 30 years.
All that’s changed is that she’s found some billionaires to help her spread her hate.
One Nation is running a coordinated campaign to turn people’s legitimate economic pain into cultural warfare.
But we know the truth: blaming immigration, attacking workers' rights, and fueling racism and Islamophobia will not make big corporations pay their fair share of tax. It will not lift people out of poverty. And it will not make housing more affordable.
Labor and the Liberals are compromised, doing the bidding of the exact same billionaires and big corporations who fund their political parties. One Nation is the same, completely bought off by the wealthiest donors who profit from keeping us divided.
At best, they tinker around the edges. At worst, they tip the scales even further away from everyday people. They will not change this broken system because they are entirely dependent on it – and yet wonder why voters abandon them or look elsewhere.
This is where we must face the reality of the job ahead.
We are not here to change the minds of failing politicians. As Bob Brown once said: our job is not to keep the bastards honest, it’s to replace them. Only then will we be able to break the corporate grip on Canberra once and for all.
I know that saying this out loud opens us up to ridicule from the media and attacks from fringe groups and trolls. Well, you know what? Bring it on.
If we’re being attacked, it’s for a reason: they know the impact a strong progressive movement can have.
By ourselves, it can feel like there is little we can do, but we are not by ourselves. We have each other.
This grassroots solidarity – our grassroots solidarity – is exactly how we challenge the racist and divisive politics of the far-right and the corporate greed of the 1%.
If you’re not already a member of the Greens, that’s the most powerful step you can take on this journey.
We have the power to replace the establishment, bring essential services back into public hands, and build a movement that welcomes everyone. Better is possible, friends, and it is a future we can absolutely shape together.