{"id":23496,"date":"2026-06-12T15:37:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/online-racism-is-significantly-impacting-mental-health-first-nations-people-say-its-like-carrying-a-bully-in-your-pocket\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:37:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T13:37:22","slug":"online-racism-is-significantly-impacting-mental-health-first-nations-people-say-its-like-carrying-a-bully-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/online-racism-is-significantly-impacting-mental-health-first-nations-people-say-its-like-carrying-a-bully-in-your-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Online racism is significantly impacting mental health, First Nations people say: \u2018It\u2019s like carrying a bully in your pocket\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Human Rights Commission has called for a digital duty of care to prevent social media algorithms from incentivising \u2018racist\u2019 content<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the past week and half, the social media feeds of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been flooded with clips from the same video, posted by a self-declared Australian comedian.<\/p>\n<p>This video shows a white woman wearing a fur coat with white dot painting on her face. She refers to herself as \u201cAunty Lisa\u201d, and claims that she is Aboriginal, after ticking yes on an Aboriginal identity form. At the end of the video, she says, \u201cI am Aboriginal, end of story\u201d, before sniffing a red jerry can, in an apparent reference to petrol sniffing, a serious issue affecting some Indigenous communities.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/jun\/13\/online-racism-mental-health-first-nations-australians-social-media-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/efbcbbc2b3b03aaa8767d121ee395cae77bdcfed\/648_0_5790_4633\/master\/5790.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d10ea3c58e93097883ae653edf6d3736\" title=\"Online racism is significantly impacting mental health, First Nations people say: \u2018It\u2019s like carrying a bully in your pocket\u2019\" \/>Australian Human Rights Commission has called for a digital duty of care to prevent social media algorithms from incentivising \u2018racist\u2019 content<br \/>\nGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast<br \/>\nFor the past week and half, the social media feeds of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been flooded with clips from the same video, posted by a self-declared Australian comedian.<br \/>\nThis video shows a white woman wearing a fur coat with white dot painting on her face. She refers to herself as \u201cAunty Lisa\u201d, and claims that she is Aboriginal, after ticking yes on an Aboriginal identity form. At the end of the video, she says, \u201cI am Aboriginal, end of story\u201d, before sniffing a red jerry can, in an apparent reference to petrol sniffing, a serious issue affecting some Indigenous communities. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Human Rights Commission has called for a digital duty of care to prevent social media algorithms from incentivising \u2018racist\u2019 content Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast For the past week and half, the social media feeds of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been flooded with clips &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/online-racism-is-significantly-impacting-mental-health-first-nations-people-say-its-like-carrying-a-bully-in-your-pocket\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Online racism is significantly impacting mental health, First Nations people say: \u2018It\u2019s like carrying a bully in your pocket\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}