Tag: Misinformation

Pacific Media Watch Journalists and media workers have criticised comments made by Aotearoa New Zealand's newly-elected Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters -- who claimed that...

Pacific Media Watch Stuff, New Zealand’s biggest independently owned news business, today announced it will stop sharing content to X (formerly Twitter), effective immediately. A media...

By Anneke Smith, RNZ News political reporter New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has been spreading misleading climate information at public meetings during the Aotearoa...

By David Robie Two researchers examining responses to conspiratorial pandemic narratives have warned Aotearoa New Zealand not to be complacent over the risk of fringe...

ANALYSIS: By Dominic O'Sullivan, Charles Sturt University Many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament have been heard in the lead-up to this...

ANALYSIS: By Michael Belgrave, Massey University Australian Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s recent claim that New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal has veto powers over Parliament was met...

By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva Fiji's opposition leader Voreqe Bainimarama has been warned to provide evidence of allegations he has made against the coalition government...

ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato and Claire Breen, University of Waikato With only six days left for submissions to the select committee examining...

By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Two New Zealand government agencies have revealed mounting concern about the intensity and the impact of online misinformation --...

By Annika Burgess of ABC Pacific Beat The Solomon Islands government has ordered the country's national broadcaster to self-censor its news and other paid programmes...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Frontline investigative articles on Aotearoa New Zealand’s 23-day Parliament protester siege, social media disinformation and Asia-Pacific media changes and adaptations are...

By Hamish Cardwell, RNZ News senior journalist A Māori health leader says a new international misinformation study confirms the alarm many were desperately trying to...

ANALYSIS: By Sean Phelan, Massey University One striking feature of the “freedom convoy” protests in Ottawa, Wellington and elsewhere has been the intense antagonism towards...

RNZ News Police say misinformation and a "range of different causes and motivations" are making it difficult to resolve the situation with protesters at New...

RNZ Pacific New Zealand, Australia and other nations in the Pacific need to do more to combat rampant vaccine misinformation in Pacific Island countries, which...

RNZ News Thousands of protesters turned up at New Zealand's Parliament today, demanding an end to covid restrictions, while another group blocked Auckland's northern boundary...

ANALYSIS: By Fraser Macdonald, University of Waikato Only 1.7 percent of Papua New Guineans have been fully vaccinated against covid-19. This has been a cause...

SPECIAL REPORT: By Sri Krishnamurthi October 2021 was a horror month for Facebook as the headlines screamed “Facebook under fire” which started with the social...

Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Fiji opposition political leader has accused the government of a "transition to a police state" with middle of the night...

FIRST PERSON: By Ben Strang, RNZ News reporter RNZ reporter Ben Strang was on the streets before the latest lockdown when he was attacked, and...

Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has warned the news media that the country's emergency powers enable the government to target...

By Repeka Nasiko in Lautoka A video by a Fiji doctor on adverse side effects of the AstraZeneca vaccine has been misconstrued to support conspiracy...