A report from the DECULT conference

FACT member Byron reports from the DECULT conference, which brought together experts on cults and high control organisations, including many former members of cults.

Fake it till you make it

How conspiracy theory groups trash real experts and create fake ones

This group is not what it seems

How conspiracy theorists use front groups and pseudo-authorities

Our conspiracy community pipeline

"Don't start with Satanic Ritual Abuse"

Just asking questions...

JAQ-ing off the wobbly middle

A trip to the Mirror World with Reality Check Radio

Would you like to take a trip to the Mirror World? Voices For Freedom outlet Reality Check Radio are offering to take us there when they interview white supremacist Michael Benz.

Jagged little (pink) pill: goodbye RCR?

Perhaps Voices For Freedom realised that their decision to openly employ, feature and promote people associated with a more radical right-wing agenda than they had previously admitted to was a strategic error. By removing the archive as well as live links, they may be hoping their audience will forg

We are submitting to the Royal Commission (and you should too)

The Royal Commission into COVID19 lessons learned has called for submissions and they're due March 24th. You can submit too, and we think you should: it's really important for the commission to hear from you.

FACT Aotearoa calls for ministers to boycott outlets promoting extreme racist views

FACT Aotearoa is calling on Government Ministers including the Deputy Prime Minister who have appeared on Reality Check Radio to boycott the station.

MOAR Problems: the misinformation techniques

In our follow up to The Leak, Confirmation Bias and Media Ecosystems, FACT Aotearoa look at the rhetorical techniques used in Barry Young's data leak to make it seem like it reveals something it doesn't.

The Leak, Confirmation Bias and Media Ecosystems

The recent leak and “analysis” of COVID-19 vaccination records is chum in the water for conspiracy theorists. They might not believe all of the data, or the conclusions made, but the story confirms what they believed all along. And they're using it to spread misinformation worldwide.

River of Freedom – Dispatches From the Mirror World

A FACT member ventured into the rosy mirror world of the documentary River of Freedom to see what has been airbrushed from the New Zealand Parliament Occupation. The results is a distorted and aggrandised piece of propaganda, removed from the reality we lived through.