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Nicola Brown is a policy advisor at InternetNZ

Liar liar, platforms on fire: the rise of misinformation and what to do about it

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Social media has provided access to more information than ever, but at the same time it’s harder than ever to tell what’s real and what’s fake. InternetNZ policy advisor Nicola Brown looks back at the year Fake News broke the internet.  Bad news spreads fast. In 2018 we saw what might be the breaking point of … Read more

How can the internet help fix the fake news miasma it created?

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With social media having sprouted misinformation machines, we need to think harder about the right tools to use to fight back, writes InternetNZ’s Nicola Brown. Scroll down for a comic strip for InternetNZ by Judith Carnaby The internet was meant to be so great for democracy. All human knowledge a couple of clicks away. Tools for people … Read more