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Anti-disinformation and conspiracy theories in Aotearoa New Zealand. Don't be duped.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That must be frustrating! Yes, they are all acted to a voice over. There are some behind-the-scenes videos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kik...
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Honest Government Ads | 5 Year Special!
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
That song is still burned into my brain from Counterspin's Occupation coverage.... uuurrrgh
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I am so happy you won and have given more light to a billionaire playing with our democracy.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Non-academic here, but years of studying the "freedom movement." Fringe party supporters in 2023 (DemocracyNZ, New Conservatives, Freedoms NZ, Outdoors & Freedoms and some NZ Loyal) are consolidating behind NZ First. There is still time, though, and I'd love to see data to back this observation.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
😂
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Would love to be able to read this! No subscription 😅 Could you say what had made people "uncomfortable"?
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We don't need to say reported. Here's Dean Harris at the VFF Coordinator conference in 2022, in the back, second from the right. It's right there, in lights 😄
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Saw that, they're not happy about that. I am.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Nunns' favourite!
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Six years of building up Ray before the email scandal have kept supporters loyal. Chung's team went on the offensive hard when that came out. Their audience is primed to see all bad press as an attack and not to believe it, so it was easy to direct the anger at the media and Whanau using DARVO.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Here's my research into the area.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Jo is right. There are celebrations of getting 9 people elected to council in Concerned Ratepayer Canterbury, local VFF groups and Pseudo-law adjacent Challenging Councils.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
👋 They're the ones who spread the rumour about Mayor Tory Whanau in 2023 but they are much, much more. They are a conspiracy theorist group that helped NZ FIrst gain the cooker vote in 2023, led by tobacco and whaling lobbyist Glenn Inwood.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
ACT candidates answered the same way in the VFF Council Watch survey. Not open ended questions though. Very much seemed like someone else filled them out for them
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
But both Andrea and Paula knew who they were getting into bed with. Some of the so-called attacks are holding them and the group accountable for their actions. I don't trust Tom Hunt. He knows what's going on in Wellington. There were better candidates to talk to about this issue.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
This article is important. But the framing is concerning. Paula and Andrea were on the Better Wellington linked Independent Together ticket. BW have been spreading vile attacks on women councillors, including Tory Whanau for years. Doesn't excuse the abuse towards them. /1
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Whether against Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, Ghahraman, Ardern, other MPs, Wiles, Bloomfield, & others involved in pandemic response, transgender activists, drag queens, judges, lawyers or academics - effects of doxxing are inherently harmful, & often leads to kinetic violence or vandalism.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Hate to say it but there is a cadre of new Gen-X supporters, pushing the party further right. We're stuck with them.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Correction: This is Murray Chong, not Phil Mauger—a case of mistaken identity. It should have been obvious as this was in New Plymouth.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
VFF coordinator Emma Ryburn-Phengsavath (independent) is standing. In '23, Emma started an unvaccinated breast milk charity. She lays out VFF's plan well: "VFF are the 101 freedom fighter's - put another way, we are deliberately appealing to people just waking up to the tyranny." More to come. /13
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
He's a NZ First supporting, Ivermectin promoting, anti-vaccine acitivist who has said "The corrupt system is being exposed like never before thanks to the fact that we must walk through this valley. Only an awakened people can fight and defeat this pervading evil inherent within our system" /12
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Westwards' Kevin Murphy is running for local board and is a VFF coordinator. He is extremely active on Telegram. Like all VFF coordinators, they have been using RCR's anti-climate change action documentary Managed out as a way to attract normies to movement, inviting his Westwards mates. /11
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Craig Lord claims not to be a conspiracy theorist yet in 2022 he said "“I will not run around in circles yelling the sky is falling, just because we are told to by the United Nations” while in a September 1 tweet, he said: “I’ll be fighting against 2030 and WEF [World Economic Forum].”" /10
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Westwards also have Allan Geddes. He's shared Brian Tamaki's Freedom's and Rights Coaliton, disinfo spreader The Daily Examiner, a video calling Ardern a "globalist puppet", and a meme calling mask wearers sheep. /9
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Jacob Curran's X shares many anti-immigration posts from "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory promoter William McGimsey, anti-trans activist Corina Shields, Elliot Ikilei, Tommy Robinson, and NZ First. He called to deport academic Mohan Dutta and celebrated Benjamin Doyle's resignation. /8
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Leao Tildsley was a New Conservatives candidate in 2020. She was an anti-mandate agitator and stood for DemocracyNZ in 2023. She is a supporter of Graham Phillips, the first person convicted of sabotage in NZ, for his attack on the electrical grid. /7
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
In Auckland, a large group is running under Westwards, led by Cr. Ken Turner. Ken is an RCR favourite, appearing six times. He also signed VFF's CouncilWatch NZ anti-WHO letter, opposing the signing of any pandemic treaties in the future. Ken appeared on NZ First candidate Erika Harvey's podcast /6
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
In a 22 interview with Liz Gunn, Hibiscus & Bays local board member Leanne Willis likened New Zealand’s Covid-19 response to Nazi Germany: “for a liberal kind of party that she (Jacinda Ardern) was heading, that it was so draconian and just had all of these remnants of the Holocaust.” /5
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Darag pushes pseudoscience, scaremongering about climate resilience actions, and pseudo-history that denigrates the place of Maori in New Zealand. Coast People has three others on their ticket: Gary Brown, Gary George, and Leanne Willis. /4
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
VFF Coordinator Darag Rennie is running under Coast People. Like Jackie Wheeler, Darag organised the Julian Batchelor Stop Co-Governance tour in Orewa. He believes we have been lied to "about diet, climate, covid, NZ history, racial and gender theory, overpopulation" to "divide and conquer." /3
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Pete Marshall stood with conspiracy-peddling Rock The Vote in '22. He posts to AK Liberation Project (Pete Mars), organises pop-ups for VFF and CouncilWatchNZ, and promotes NZ First. He admits the 2nd COVID inquiry was to take out their political opponents, calling them a "band of evil dwarfs" /2
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨 Auckland VFF coordinators running for council Three COs are running for council in Auckland, two are on a larger ticket. Pete Marshall is the only person standing under Concerned Ratepayers Herne Bay. Yes, another CR group. Pete is an admin on VFF Telegram channel, Hear our Voices /1
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The candidate who fronted the vigil:
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
There was a plan to take over ACT in 2022 that failed, then eyes were set on NZ First in early 2023. They didn't need to try.
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Laurie has a candidate he is supporting for Napier District Council, Te Kira Lawrence, who appears to be a NZ First staffer. She's getting support from a bunch of NZ First candidates. Thanks for coming down this rabbit warren. There is more to come. Next, we look to Auckland. /end
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I bet you are wondering if there is any connection to Elizabeth Mundt and Upskilling for Local Government? Elizabeth Mundt's (Eliza Lucy Hoss) has commented on posts that include some of these photos. And another U4LG member has too, Laurie Turnbull, Napier NZ First candidate in 2023. /12
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Dave, who is stang for Mayor for a second time, is unapologetically anti-vax. /11
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
David is a member of the pseudo-law adjacent group Challenging Councils, as is the man to the right of the above photo, David Christison. Dave is a NZ Loyal supporter turned NZ First type of guy. He's in this photo taken at a New Plymouth NZ First event with Christchurch Mayor Phil Mauger. /10
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
In some shocking news, it's the same players in Rangitīkei. David Yates (front) is running for council. You can see him with Charlotte Weber at a NZ First meeting. Behind her is VFF CO Greg Smith. Greg is an admin on a council-focused Facebook group called Bulls Locally. /9
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Jackie attended the Occupation, and shares 15-minute city conspiracy theories and says it's the "elite Maori that are the problem." She'd vote to leave LGNZ, against improved cycleways and Maori wards. OK, Rangitīkei, here we come. /8
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Jackie booked the Stop Co-Governance Palmy stop for Julian Batchelor. The meeting was interrupted by a whistle blower. While she was ripped from the meeting, someone yelled "pull her pants down!" Jackie filmed. /7
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Side Quest: Palmerston North candidate and VFF CO Jackie Wheeler also attends local committee meetings for NZ First. She had MP Andy Foster speak at her local VFF meeting. Jackie held an anti-LGNZ rally in 2022. /6
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Rob's social media is locked down but he follows several VFF coordinators from all over: Nelson, Temuka, and Jackie Wheeler in Palmerston North. And there is Jason Bardell, who has been endorsed by Azian, and can be seen in the back row of this NZ First event. /5
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
And here is Charlotte helping Azian put up hoardings. Azian also attended the Levin local committee led by VFF coordinators, with Bill Arnold speaking to the crew. Another candidate intertwined with NZ First is Rob Oscroft. See him pictured with Bill and Charlotte. /4
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Azian went to the Occupation and shares conspiracy theory word salad on Telegram, including allusions to Nuremberg 2. Yes, that is Azian with Rachel Woodhead. The other person is Charlotte Weber, Billy TK's Advance NZ Whanganui candidate and NZ First member. /3
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It doesn't look like Rachel and her WRRA team mate, NZ First Whanganui candidate Bill Arnold, are running candidates... until you look at the NZ First local committee meetings. Meet Azian Zulkifli (right). Azian is a constant campaigner for NZ First, travelling to other cities for meetings /2
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📣 VFF and NZ First in Whanganui and Rangitīkei Local Elections (with a side of Napier) As shown earlier, Baydal Furness, ahem, Rachel Woodhead is the local coordinator in Whanganui and president of Whanganui Residents and Ratepayers Association. No surprises, she's is a member of NZ First. /1
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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Elizabeth Mundt calls for transparency yet hides behind closed doors, internet aliases, and astroturf groups to gain power in local and national government. More locations to come /10
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