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Rise in disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections
Anti-government protester in Wellington, marching towards Parliament on 23 August 2022. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone Unprecedented levels of disinformation will only get worse this election, but systems set up to deal with it during the pandemic have all been
Read moreQAnon: The conspiracy theory that has gripped the far-right
Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, Tom Hanks and Oprah Winfrey are part of a blood-drinking, child-abusing Satanist group that controls the world, according to extreme right-wing QAnon conspiracists. Their belief in this cabal, and many other theories, are the subject of a
Read moreComplaints about antivax lawyer unresolved after 18 months
People who have complained about the conduct of lawyer Sue Grey and the spread of Covid disinformation say months on they are still waiting for their concerns to be addressed, while Sue Grey continues to use her platform as a
Read moreAnti-vax parents create media conundrum
One press conference question at a Prime Ministerial summit kicked off a wave of social media scorn this week – and even criticism and international headlines about sexism. But media made a better fist of the awkward questions thrown up by
Read moreBaby waits while antivax parents in court refusing donated blood
A lawyer says a sick baby whose parents want him to only be treated with blood from unvaccinated people is getting sicker with every heartbeat. Te Whatu Ora Health NZ has gone to court to ask for guardianship of the
Read moreTe Whatu Ora going to court after parents refuse vaccinated donor blood for sick baby’s surgery
The couple say the baby urgently needs open heart surgery and they want the blood to come from people who have not had the Covid-19 vaccine. (file picture) Photo: 123RF Te Whatu Ora is going to court over an anti-vax
Read moreLooking for a UFO which crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014
Eight years ago, an unidentified object a bit bigger than a basketball fell into the ocean near Papua New Guinea. Astrophysicist Avi Loeb wants to know what it was that fell to Earth and he’s planning an expedition to find out.
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