Ebola Misinformation Is Burning Hospitals in DR Congo
Hospitals burned. Patients missing. Health workers under attack. Ebola misinformation is deadly, and the West has already shown it is hardly immune.

Hospitals burned. Patients missing. Health workers under attack. Ebola misinformation is deadly, and the West has already shown it is hardly immune.

RNZ is suddenly worried about disinformation. Fine. But who is asking why foreign military intelligence infrastructure operated from Waihopai without ministers knowing?

Corporate media lost public trust years ago, but replacing journalism with algorithm-fuelled conspiracy culture is poisoning democracy itself.

From deepfakes to surveillance capitalism, a major journalism conference asks what happens when AI and Big Tech reshape the media itself.

When Russian media starts spotlighting your culture-war grift, maybe stop celebrating and start asking who finds you useful.

If the Broadcasting Standards Authority disappears, what replaces it? In an era of misinformation and rage-fuelled algorithms, that question matters more than ever.

The weirdest thing about Javier Milei may not be the dead dog stories anymore. Allegations around disinformation networks and political money are becoming far harder to ignore.

Sean Plunket has said far worse than this, which is why the BSA complaint feels less like principle and more like bureaucratic theatre with a funding problem underneath.
Pacific Media Watch: A New Zealand-based community education provider, Dark Times Academy, has had a US Embassy grant to deliver a course teaching Pacific Islands journalists about disinformation terminated after the new Trump administration took office.
Research on climate crisis as the new target for disinformation peddlers, governance and the media, China’s growing communication influence, and journalism training strategies feature strongly in the latest Pacific Journalism Review.