Labor tax critic deletes anti-immigration AI video reposted from rightwing nationalist account

The fund manager Geoff Wilson, a prominent public critic of the government’s tax changes, has deleted an inflammatory AI-generated video he reposted from a rightwing nationalist account portraying Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers taking money from white Australians and giving it to recently arrived migrants wearing Islamic face coverings. Wilson said he had not watched the full video before sharing it or examined other accounts, some of whose content he reposted on Wednesday morning – which included content relating to the QAnon conspiracy theory – and deleted his posts after being contacted by Guardian Australia. “Once the inappropriate associations were identified, I immediately removed the two posts,” he said. The video posted by Wilson – a relative of the shadow treasurer, Tim Wilson – also includes AI-generated imagery of a protest march where demonstrators hold signs reading “diversity is not our strength” and “treason”, as well as images of a white family with blond children becoming homeless after leaving their house, which is later occupied by a triumphant south Asian family. In other social media posts on X on Wednesday, Wilson also reposted content relating to the QAnon conspiracy theory, and from accounts regularly sharing anti-immigration content. “We have only just begun. We will stop this insane CGT on all Australians businesses!” Wilson wrote alongside the reposted AI-generated video.