In 2024, the Disinformation Project’s Sanjana Hattotuwa discovered which parties carried a Meta Pixel tracker on their sites. Ahead of the 2026 election, he’s checked again.

Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual...

Comment: Gerry Brownlee held MPs to a double standard, with harsh punishments for the Opposition and leniency for the coalition.

And the chances of a crackdown are slim, as the authorities spy opportunities for surveillance.

David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Nicky Hager launched Dirty Work: The Taxpayers’ Union and New Zealand’s Hard Right to a crowd of hundreds at Unity Books in Wellington on 22 September 2026, fewer than 50 days before the general elect...

Our friend, colleague and comrade Eoghan Sweeney has been diagnosed with termina… Joseph Galvin needs your support for Our friend and colleague Eoghan Sweeney

The Canadian Armed Forces confirmed Sean Ward served in the military until 2022.

The pairing features in Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2027 list, which describes the region as "one of New Zealand's most idiosyncratic destinations".

Investigative journalist and author Nicky Hager has released a new book called Dirty Work, an "exposé"of the Taxpayers' Union (TU), "the latest front for New Zealand's radical right," he says.

Americans' trust in vaccines for deadly childhood diseases including ​measles has fallen in recent years, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found, a troubling sign for the country as it experiences its worst ‌...

A police officer secretly filmed a woman having sex with him before stowing the illicit clip away in a hidden app on his phone.

Anthropic has released a 154-page report describing how bad actors used its Claude AI system for state-sponsored surveillance, propaganda operations and more.

ALT: Johnny Rose: Nothing To See Here People

Deadline: 04.10.2026

The European Union should force tech giants to make social media safe before children use them instead of banning minors from their platforms, over 130 groups and experts urged in a letter shared with...