FACT Aotearoa News Briefs 17 August 2026
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...
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FACT Aotearoa News Briefs 3 August 2026
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.
FACT Aotearoa News Briefs 20 July 2026
HAARP and weather warfare; Health disinformation; The psychology of viral disinformation; Even Trump thinks conspiracy theories are out of hand.
FACT Aotearoa News Briefs 6 July 2026
Simulacra more believable than real politicians, safety toolkit, poisonous AI, discourse networks, and more...
FACT Aotearoa News Briefs 22 June 2026
The linguistics of conspiracy, message drift, snorkeling through bullshit, fake NZ news, conspiracy theories at the movies, and more...
FACT Aotearoa News Briefs 8 June 2026
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.
FACT Aotearoa News Briefs 25 May 2026
Online echo chambers, AI accelerating radicalisation, Canadian mutant super-raccoon armies, Hantavirus conspiracies, and more...
FACT Aotearoa News Briefs 11 May 2026
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...
FACT Aotearoa News Briefs 27 April 2026
Liberal democracies can win the cognitive and hybrid war against authoritarians; FIMI and disinformation as global threats; and Rising vaccine skepticism ...
Ballot papers are destroyed 6 months after the election 🤔
The law requires papers to be destroyed a few months after the election – but that’s for a good reason, and it doesn’t make fraud easier. We get to the nitty gritty of why. The law requires ballot papers to be kept for six months after the official count
FALSE CLAIM: “They” manipulate the count
We count votes by hand in this country, and we count them carefully… but it seems like not everybody knows that. And it’s normal for the final result to change after election night, but not everyone gets that either. In New Zealand all votes are counted by hand. The
Our politicians are selected
NZ politicians are selected by their party and elected by us, not by a global cabal of "them". Quite simple really, but gird your loins for a long explanation of this conspiratorial thought-terminating cliche and why it's nearly impossible for it to be true. To