18 May 2022

A dozen Facebook acnts behind misinformation at Parl protests

From First Up, 5:44 am on 18 May 2022

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A study released this morning has found that just a dozen Facebook accounts were behind nearly two thirds of the mis and dis-information circulated during the Parliament protest. Kate Hannah is Te Punaha Matatini's principal investigator and director of the Disinformation Project, which studied data from tens of millions of online posts, tweets and comments, alongside hundreds of hours of live-streamed footage from the protest. Nathan Rarere asked her how so few accounts could have such an impact.