FACT Aotearoa News Briefs 9 November 2026
Michael Laws; The enduring legacy of Pizzagate; Q's bib; NZ First's Great Replacement; Swiss gullability
Michael Laws; The enduring legacy of Pizzagate; Q's bib; NZ First's Great Replacement; Swiss gullability
Rage and frustration; Jacinda; RFK; DARVO in the Manosphere; and Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and the move away from critical thinking
Talking to friends spouting conspiracy theories; Cleaning up bad science; Russian propoganda; How conspiracy theories justify repression; Conspiracy theories in sport.
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.