Sometimes shame works, folks.

New Zealand, WHO, and the conversion of disinformation into foreign policy www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-ze... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/n... (WordPress) #nzpol #WHO #Disinformation

Attackers have been impersonating Signal’s support team to try to fool users into handing over account access. Now they’re targeting Signal users via backup recovery codes. Fortunately, it’s easy to stop them. Read more in our digital security newsletter.

On the trail of the Christchurch terrorist, and what he told us first www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609... #nzpol

Gilbert’s WIRED reporting from the Remigration Summit is not a US-Europe story alone. It shows a racist deportation project gaining confidence through American state violence, far-right celebrity, and platform reach. New Zealand has its own version(s), growing at pace. #nzpol

Worth reading, considering it's Microsoft the NZ govt is in bed with. | In Leaked Document, Microsoft Plots How to Get People “Addicted” to Its AI futurism.com/artificial-i... #nzpol @openpolicy.bsky.social

Russian bots have turned him into a deepfake. He avoids travelling to the US over fears he could be on a watchlist. In an interview with Follow the Money, @bellingcat.com founder @eliothiggins.bsky.social explains why, after years of high-stakes investigations, “the paranoia gets to you”.

New report feats. worrying insights into billionaire funded lawfare against academics, & mainstream media. Worth noting that Grennon's support of Chantelle Baker's ongoing lawfare is against Founder of The Disinformation Project, & Stuff. This isn't just about my case. SLAPP's threaten NZ democracy.

As far back as Feb 2023, with the amazing @paulapenfold.bsky.social, & Founder of The Disinformation Project Kate Hannah was invited to speak to senior judges in New Zealand, incl. the full bench of Supreme Court, & Chief Justice. May have been first time they heard presentations on disinfo. #nzpol

Singapore's Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon warns of a growing "truth decay" in society, where people no longer agree on what is objectively true. He added that the courts face a unique challenge amid the age of #AI and social media, as their role depends on establishing the truth based on evidence.

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

🧐🤔 @legallyfeminist.bsky.social

Interesting account on TikTok, presenting itself as 'grassroots'. Given history of astroturfing in NZ drugfoundation.org.nz/news-and-rep... no surprise that individuals associated with it in the past, again very active, are likely to ramp up efforts in the lead up to Nov's general election. #nzpol

The significant rise of the far-right in New Zealand after the 2023 general election. In conversation with Peter Bale and Bernard Hickey on The Hoon, broadcast on 28 May 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEUF... #nzpol

Thought-provoking to read the article below after reading danah boyd's new article on the evolution of social media into parasocial media. bsky.app/profile/kate...

How Fuel Price Shocks Rattled a Remote New Zealand Village www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/w... Gift link. #nzpol

Climate change, and its denial: Lecture to Mindanao Peacebuilding Institute www.linkedin.com/pulse/climat... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/c... (WordPress) #ClimateChange #Disinformation #Peacebuilding

I often think about what happened with Musk's DOGE clusterfuck in the US, especially around its use of AI. Sad to see the same logic, if not end goals now proposed by the government in New Zealand. #nzpol

Golly gosh. A real shame this bill is being pushed through under budget urgency because automated decision-making regimes like this should be subjected to close and sceptical scrutiny in select committee — with experts and the public able to make submissions on this dramatic administrative turn.

@sanjanah.bsky.social has just published powerful research on the growth of extreme rhetoric in Aotearoa over the last 3 years. I've made this visual explainer of the key themes his piece illustrates. Read his full report: sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/05/26/f...

“It is remarkable conduct ... the conduct of him and his team the way the litigation was advanced, at every turn it was conducted in a problematic way… This is worse conduct by a plaintiff I have seen by a litigant in a civil case,” Salmon said in a submission he said he didn’t make lightly. #nzpol

Really important article to read. Essentially this defamation action funded by Grenon was a #SLAPP - a Strategic Lawsuit Against Participation - and now Grenon is trying to wriggle out of paying the costs that he knew he was on the hook for if TVNZ & @sanjanah.bsky.social were successful. #nzpol

Excellent summation of right-wing ideas and activity. Focussed on New Zealand but most of it applies worldwide

Flashcards on the nine pathologies in far-right discourse expansion, & entrenchment in New Zealand studied under the current government (i.e., since October 2023). 1/3 #nzpol

Entirely independent of Kumeroa's study of New Zealand's far-right, and white supremacist expansion, I've published a report looking at how things have worsened since 2023's general election, esp. under the present government. Flag 9 vital pathologies, 5 pathways to violent extremism, & more. #nzpol

Former SAS soldier says international far-right groups growing in New Zealand www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a... #nzpol

Pope Leo Warns of Risks From A.I. in 42,300-Word Encyclical www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/w... (Gift link)

This should be the other way around, surely? Hollowed out institutions can't regulate what they're simultaneously being asked to run, esp. with increasingly less human resources. Deploying AI w/out accountability a recipe for disaster. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/22/a... @legallyfeminist.bsky.social

Claiming to be ‘Centrist’ is a guise. Likewise, Slater now claiming to be a ‘journalist’. Trying to cloak themselves as ‘media’ when in fact they have a deep history as PR & political attack bloggers, doing ‘hit jobs’ for hire. This is an old conversation www.thepaepae.com/part-of-the-...

Bluesky Says Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread Propaganda The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real users’ accounts to post fake content, an apparently novel tactic. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...

The same billionaire who bankrolled lawfare against me, and TVNZ for reporting Julian Batchelor's anti-Māori racism, now directs advertising to far-right accounts, & platforms trafficking in the same register to amplify his own media. In the lead up to November's poll, this completely tracks. #nzpol

Imagine (justifiable) public consternation, and MSM coverage if someone held up the ISIS flag inside Parliament House? But this, by neo-Nazis championing the violent extremist 'remigration' trope I suspect won't elicit a single question even in parliament. #nzpol @ponekeantifa.bsky.social

“…the consequence of panic-driven law-making combined with arrogance…” | If the White Australia Party win in the High Court, it’ll be the government’s own fault www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/21/w... Lessons for policymaking around Gordian Knots like hate speech in other countries too.

Of 29 countries surveyed, NZ has the lowest opposition to immigration — one of only four where the average respondent leans toward wanting more, not less. What's behind the opposition that does exist? I dug into NZES and ISSP data — part 2 of a two-part series. Short 🧵 (1/5) #nzpol

For the first time since the birth of the Internet, the world is confronting not merely a new technology in AI, but a new operational status quo. The question is whether governance can evolve before security fears harden into permanent fragmentation, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

Studied 600+ comments against this video on Facebook. The comments overwhelmingly cast MP Davidson as a figure of historic significance, with many drawing explicit comparisons to David Lange's iconic Oxford Union debate victory in March '85 - a touchstone of New Zealand's political memory. #nzpol

Deepfake bill passes first reading in Parliament

Tldr: I went to the famous Oxford Union Debate to hold Empire accountable. Against 3 older power laden men pimping for colonisation. No biggie. I shat myself. It was terrifying. I won by just agreeing to do it, and telling my story anyway. But the win of 163-86 was a bonus. youtu.be/SlZE8BT_fio?...

Who here knows a contact at FIANZ? @alinasu33.bsky.social's no longer there, and I don't want to trouble her anymore. Need to flick through something to alert community on what's in a new manifesto modelled on ChCh killer's one, now accessible on social media. Have sent Police. Please DM me. #nzpol

"Two teen suspects in a fatal US shooting spree reportedly called themselves the "Sons of Tarrant" in an apparent reference to the white supremacist who massacred 51 people in New Zealand in 2019." www.rnz.co.nz/news/crime-a... #nzpol

Great work! We've made a little explainer for FB and IG because they've been shared all over those platforms. www.facebook.com/ponekeantifa...

Re-upping this, penned almost exactly a year ago. | Institutional collapse: How 10,000 public sector job cuts threaten New Zealand’s national, and human security sanjanah.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/i... #nzpol

The Law Commission has been asked by Paul Goldsmith to undertake review of legal issues related to use of automated decision-making by government. It can't be a coincidence that the Govt's thinking of cutting more public sector jobs, & introducing AI to sector. @legallyfeminist.bsky.social #nzpol

Reported the white supremacist network Remigration NZ to the international payment gateway provider Stripe exactly a month ago for very clearly violating its terms of service. Also posted report to LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/sanjan... #nzpol

"Kiwi Proudly" managed from.... 🧐 🤔 #nzpol

"The Great Replacement (TGR) arrived in New Zealand as manifesto in March 2019. It is now a mood." From mood to infrastructure: Tracking ‘The Great Replacement’ in New Zealand, 2021 to 2026 www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-m... (LinkedIn) sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/05/17/f... (WordPress) #NZPol

Librarians literally saved my life

Democracy absorbs yet another cost that these companies happily externalise whilst profiting from engagement, whatever its provenance, veracity, or consequence. www.linkedin.com/posts/sanjan... #SocialMedia #Democracy #Disinformation #FarRight

Which is it? 🧐 🤔 #nzpol

"less effusive tones"