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It's terrible!These people committed suicide after the Australian election!""The Australian election took a surprising turn!House prices are escalating!It will affect Chinese people's lives in these ways…" "After the election, tens of thousands of Australians are preparing to escape!'We can't stay in Australia anymore!' Some have submitted immigration applications to other countries!"Headlines like these-sensational, conspiratorial, demonstrably misleading and intentionally ambiguous-characterise the coverage of the 2019 Australian federal election on WeChat, a Chinese app used for messaging and socialising, among other things.Such articles, produced by WeChat Official Accounts and circulated on the platform, mostly originated from news-focused accounts operated by individual bloggers or small-to-medium media organisations, and are based on translations of selective Australian media coverage.These striking headlines may not be fully representative of the prevailing discourse of Chinese-language news media in Australia, but they
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