"Prominent Indigenous academic Marcia Langton has accused some no vote supporters of spreading “garbage”, personally targeting Indigenous supporters of the voice and “swarming social media with bots and AI lies”.Langton, the former co-chair of the Morrison government’s Indigenous voice design advisory group, made the comments during an event she presented in Sydney on Thursday night.She said prominent Indigenous voice supporters were being maliciously targeted by anti-voice campaigners, including politicians.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup“We’re the imaginary enemy of the state and every politician comes along and plays political football with us,” she said at the event.“They’ve played the old-fashioned fear tactics but now they’ve got all the extra post-Trumpian tactics, the Steve Bannon tactics of swamping social media with bots and AI generated Facebook lies and lies on Twitter.”Langton said: “I’ve never been a member of the Communist party. I did have a very cute Communist party member boyfriend once here in Sydney.“If you only read the ‘no case’ bots about that evil Marcia Langton, you’d be horrified. You’d run out of the room.“Every Indigenous leader has been targeted. Megan Davis has been targeted by these nefarious Trump-like cult groups.”
