New Zealand
The protest at Parliament was unlike anything seen before, say NZ disinformation researchers in a fresh report. Seeking to understand how the February 2022 occupation came about, they closely tracked mis- and disinformation activity on social media before and during the event, discovering that its spread, speed and size has steadily grown since November. However, a minority of perpetrators may play a large part: on the protest’s final day, 73 per cent of interactions in the mis/disinformation networks was generated by just a dozen Facebook figureheads. The authors say conspiracy thinking hasn’t ended with the protest’s end - but NZ must end its complacency by acting to address this problem.
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