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

Emma Carson was approached by one of Joanna Howe’s supporters and asked about abortion in Adelaide, South Australia. Photograph: Sia Duff/The Guardian

“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.