{"id":7515,"date":"2021-03-06T08:17:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T21:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=7515"},"modified":"2021-03-06T08:25:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T21:25:16","slug":"daniel-andrews-spends-nearly-800000-on-facebook-pushing-cult-of-dan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/daniel-andrews-spends-nearly-800000-on-facebook-pushing-cult-of-dan\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Andrews spends nearly $800,000 on Facebook pushing \u2018cult of Dan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sky News Australia<\/a> &#8211; Mar 4, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Daniel Andrews spends nearly $800,000 on Facebook pushing \u2018cult of Dan\u2019\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RdN31StQX_c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is pouring taxpayer dollars into his social media presence all for self-promotion and the \u201ccult of Dan,\u201d says Victorian Liberal MP Richard Riordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Victorian premier has spent $770,000 of taxpayer funds in five years on his Facebook presence and advertisements on the platform on the way to becoming the most popular politician on the social media giant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spending campaign has ammased the premier one million followers on the platform &#8211; more than any other political figure in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Riordan slammed the premier for \u201cpouring that money into himself\u201d for self-promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat money is being poured into algorithms,\u201d he told Sky News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all for his own personal gain\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Riordan, the Shadow Assistant Minister for Scrutiny of Government in Victoria, said the premier attempted to pass off the expense in parliament as him \u201cputting out special messages during COVID\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s three-quarters of a million dollars \u2026 pushing his brand,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNo one else has the largesse this man has. It\u2019s all for self-promotion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO0akufu9MOzyz3nvGIXAAw\" target=\"_blank\">Sky News Australia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky News Australia &#8211; Mar 4, 2021 Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is pouring taxpayer dollars into his social media presence all for self-promotion and the \u201ccult of Dan,\u201d says Victorian Liberal MP Richard Riordan. The Victorian premier has spent $770,000 of taxpayer funds in five years on his Facebook presence and advertisements on the platform&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/daniel-andrews-spends-nearly-800000-on-facebook-pushing-cult-of-dan\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daniel Andrews spends nearly $800,000 on Facebook pushing \u2018cult of Dan\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,126],"tags":[659,129,1041,1396,1375,2903],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/daniel-andrews-spends.jpg?fit=474%2C266&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7518,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7515\/revisions\/7518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}