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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.
Conspiracy Theories
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
Covid-19 Information
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.
Conspiracy Theories
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.
Conspiracy Theories
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.
Conspiracy Theories
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.
2023 General Election
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.
2023 General Election
Resource: How to Avoid Media Manipulation Attempts
Responsible Reporting on False Information. A new resource with tips for how media professionals can minimise narrative hijacking by conspiracy theorists and extremists, and maximise their ability to report on important events. Download now.
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