Cam Slater: Oh Dear, How Sad, Never Mind

How is this news? Almost everyone has known for decades that this is where traditional media are heading. It shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone but it appears to be a surprise to the New Zealand media, who have had their heads wedged firmly up their own fundaments for quite some considerable time.

Thomas Cranmer: From Academic Research to News Headlines - The Disinformation Project's Influence on New Zealand Media

The research group had a controversial role in the Covid-19 pandemic and has now entered the transgender debate by making a series of outlandish claims.

The Disinformation Project has once again hit the news, this time by making the absurd claim that, in the aftermath of Kellie-Jay Keen’s visit to New Zealand, the trans-community has been subject to “genocidal” vitriol.

Disinformation Project researcher Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa said the extremity of the content was more characteristic of far right and neo-fascist and neo-Nazi groups, and the fact it was now being taken up by groups that flourished because of Covid measures was “really worrying”.