FACT Aotearoa News Briefs 28 September 2026
Just cut the wires, loose change, the poisonous tide, AI generated distrust, the Clancys and more...
Just cut the wires, loose change, the poisonous tide, AI generated distrust, the Clancys and more...
How 9/11 turned made everyone a conspiracy theorist; Google's AI reinforces conspiracy theories; Bird flu is the new COVID; Trust vs attention
Dolly Parton's death caused by vaccines? AI generated religious hucksters are as effective as humans; QAnon's smoothie; The Premier League's failings: incompetence, or cabal? And antisemitism unites the far right and far left.
Meta pays rage-bait content creators and trains its AI on conspiracy theories; A guide to fighting conspiracy theories; Kim Dotcom ❤️ Sue Grey; and more...
H5N1 = Plandemic Take 2? Conspiracies kill Anne Widdecombe; Why do people who trust science also believe conspiracy theories? Why some ideas are easy to believe; Google drops fake satellite image maker.
HAARP and weather warfare; Health disinformation; The psychology of viral disinformation; Even Trump thinks conspiracy theories are out of hand.
Simulacra more believable than real politicians, safety toolkit, poisonous AI, discourse networks, and more...
The linguistics of conspiracy, message drift, snorkeling through bullshit, fake NZ news, conspiracy theories at the movies, and more...
Extremist narratives in Aotearoa, Ebola and conspiracy theories, Don't trust AI to be your fact checker, Into the manoshphere, and The Great Mt Vic Spaghetti Dump of 2018.
Online echo chambers, AI accelerating radicalisation, Canadian mutant super-raccoon armies, Hantavirus conspiracies, and more...
Online outrage, spotting fake news, Russia's use of AI to run disinformation campaigns, Canada's take on disinformation and public health, social media and targeted voter suppresion, and more...
Liberal democracies can win the cognitive and hybrid war against authoritarians; FIMI and disinformation as global threats; and Rising vaccine skepticism ...