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Ehsan Dehghan, Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology

The rise of #Robodebt: how Twitter activists pushed a government scandal from hashtags to a royal commission

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The royal commission into the unlawful robodebt scheme has delivered its findings.

On the final day of public hearings, Commissioner Catherine Holmes highlighted the crucial role of citizen journalists and activists on Twitter. She described the mainstream media reporting as “patchy”, and noted the “remarkably useful and important public service” provided by tweeters covering the scandal from its emergence to the royal commission’s final hearings.

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