Michael Cook: Jacinda Ardern’s war on free speech always deserved to fail. Now researchers have showed why.

She pressed for vigorous censorship of the internet because “prolific misinformation” is a new weapon of war.

In October last year, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, told the United Nations General Assembly that what the world needs is less free speech.

Well, not exactly that, but close enough. She pressed for vigorous censorship of the internet because “prolific misinformation” is a new weapon of war.