Deb Aloisi never has enough time in the day.

• The Binjari Community Aboriginal Corporation said much of the abuse they received was from so-called "concerned citizens" from the USA

As chief executive of the Binjari Community Aboriginal Corporation, she is frequently attending meetings, solving problems and crafting ways to improve life in Binjari.

But when COVID-19 hit the town she's called home since 1990, her workload increased to a whole new level.

She didn't anticipate losing hours of every day responding to false claims her people were being forced into vaccinations and removed from their homes against their will.

"There were some days there where I just [had] my phone on silent and left it in my bedroom and never even brought it out, just worked on my computer rather than listen to all the bullshit that was coming out of people's mouths.''

She said many of the self-described "concerned citizens" weren't from Binjari or the Northern Territory.

"I was getting calls from Arizona, I think it was — or Nevada — telling me the army was forcing everyone out, like into quarantine, that we were holding down giving them needles," she said.

"Not only overseas, I was getting them from Melbourne and Sydney."

Misleading content uploaded to various social media sites had been shared thousands of times.

While fighting misinformation, the Binjari Community Aboriginal Corporation was trying to coordinate the delivery of...

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