The need to take disinformation seriously
It is troubling that the Disinformation Project only concentrates on the misinformation and disinformation of fringe actors but never on that spread by authorities.
12Apr 
4Apr 
Who is Chris Hipkins so afraid of?
He hasn’t received a phone call from Klaus Schwab and the United Nations hasn’t sent out secret edicts (they are pretty brazen with their nonsense to be honest). The real reason he is so afraid to state the simple truth is that he fears the middle men and women.
29Mar 
Our government needs to stop funding hate
The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has raised concerns, our Human Rights Commission has raised concerns, and I know a number of people who have written to the Minister and Ministry to voice opposition. Our Ministry officials and Ministers just don’t want to stop funding this sort of hate.
A silver lining is that they are proud to say they don’t fund any other hate – that would be unconscionable.
12Mar 
Ignore the ignorant climate change school strikers
One of the few advantages of the severe lockdowns during the Covid 19 pandemic is that it demonstrated that it is possible to reduce emissions and what actions would need to be taken to do that.
7Mar 
An Open Book – a tribute to Georgina Beyer
She didn’t hide a thing, included a history of sex work. Her honesty clearly did the trick. Show people your heart, and eventually that is all they will see.
2Mar
The Science is settled, until it isn’t: selective trust in scientific knowledge
It seems The Science is whatever they decide is The Science on any given issue, whether it bears any resemblance to reality or not.
28Feb 
What Byron “extremism expert” Clark isn’t telling you?
Byron C Clark has been promoted as an authority on far right extremism, and disinformation. He also fundraised for a terror organisation.
23Feb 
FSU film screening of Last Words: some reflections by Dr. David Bromell
We can’t just pass a few laws and hope the problem will go away. Because it won’t, and then the temptation for governments is to keep passing ever more restrictive laws.
22Feb 
Against zero tolerance
In the context of antisemitism specifically the zero tolerance policy can lend credence to outrageous claims about a powerful Jewish conspiracy lording over society. That is exactly how the Nazis manipulated it during the Weimar period (1918-33).
17Feb
The unreliable catcher
What we should fear most, yet can never predict, is a ‘radical loser’s’ chance encounter with themselves, in a song, in a book, in a film.