Victorian Labor loses ‘Matthew Guy’ Facebook page after using it for $115,000 worth of attack ads
by Josh Butler and Benita Kolovos from World news | The Guardian on (#660TA)
The party has spent three times more than the Liberals on political advertising on the platform
The Victorian Labor party spent more than $115,000 on a Facebook page under the name of the Liberal leader, Matthew Guy, to boost paid ads attacking his policies and record in government, before deleting the page just a week out from election day.
The circumstances behind the deletion of the page - which was the second-biggest political advertiser on all of Australian Facebook in the past month - are unclear.
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