Laura Dowling

In the serious sense, if people search for me in my voting records, it's not easy to find.

So then I get challenged on, but why did you agree with this?

And I'm like, I didn't agree with like, what are you talking about?

And then there's a narrative in politics that once you're explaining, you're losing.

I mean, I always say once we're explaining, we're doing our job.

Yeah.

And it's better to meet someone where they're at and then work to figure out where that information came from.

But I mean, we laugh and jest that there's times I go home and my parents, my dad's like...

what the hell did you do this week?

Why did you do that?

And I go, where did you get that information?

I've seen it on Facebook.

And I'm like, but that's not, that's not true.

Well, it's here.

And then he's flicking through the phone to say it's here somewhere.

And I'm like, dad, you won't be able to find it unless you have the URL or you screenshot it something.

But that goes to show 90% of content what we see online is synthetically made.

And so very dangerous.

Apologies for whatever questions you had prepared.

I have other things going for me.