FACT: concerned about the spread of harmful misinformation & conspiracy theories in Aotearoa.
No party affiliation. But Qanon = a fascist ideology
Feb 13 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Out there in conspiracy theory land, some people are looking at a poorly calculated PDF of potential money paid to vaccine centres and claiming they are “mind-blowing” figures. They want you to think something underhand is going on.
They took two OIA responses and smashed them together to get the supposed amount paid to vaccination centres. One was the number of vaccine doses sent to the centres (OIA 1), the other was the amount paid per dose.
Sep 19, 2023 • 23 tweets • 7 min read
New Zealand General Election 2023 🧵
With less than four weeks until the election, conspiracy theorists are spinning their predictable web. Read our threads below to learn more about their tactics, narratives and disruptions. Please share to get the word out!!!
Meetings have been disrupted by conspiratorial candidates and their supporters. It’s part of a coordinated strategy.
Clips of conspiracy theorists confronting 2023 election candidates are rampant at the moment. They are asking questions designed to force politicians to respond to, legitimise and amplify fringe views. They want to shift the focus from candidates to themselves.
As a nation we have prided ourselves on how accessible our candidates are. That is changing.
We need to talk about how conspiracy theorists are organising to disrupt meetings and what we can do about it.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/bu…
Aug 8, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
Voices for Freedom have been pushing hard for weeks to get their members to run for local council and have now released their strategy. They want to have a candidate sit in every seat and are working with other groups (TFRC and more) to make sure that happens. #nzpol
But VFF’s focus is on running for seats with little to no competition. In a recent video, they took viewers through nominee pages, pointing out where there are spaces to run uncontested. #nzpolelectionz.com/lge2022_resour…
Jul 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
FACT Aotearoa has uncovered that Nurses for Freedom’s Dunedin coordinator is Lauren Bransgrove, an ex-nurse who told fellow anti-vaxxers to slash tyres of vaccination buses, and called nurses and doctors who supported the vaccine “the enemy.” nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-de…
After the story was widely reported, Lauren changed her pseudonym on Telegram from Lauren Hill to X O, and as shown, Lauren is the NFFNZ coordinator for Otago/Dunedin. She is also a member of Voices for Freedom.
Nov 22, 2021 • 25 tweets • 9 min read
1. The Freedom & Rights Coalition protests in New Zealand are being led by a spinoff from self-appointed Apostle Brian Tamaki's Destiny Church. But the wider self-described ‘freedom movement’ comprises a diverse range of groups and individuals. Here are some of the key players👇
2.1 Sue Grey: a lawyer (currently under investigation by the Law Society) and co-leader of The Outdoors Party (0.1% of the vote in 2020). Grey has an avid support base which she constantly bombards with covid & vaccine related misinformation.
