Fantastic interview in the #MOLE Training con on MediaWatch on Sunday;

"There is definitely some form of regulation, not just to protect the entities per se, but to protect the ... value that we hold for media in our society ... to not be dependent on centralisation, or one *foreign* outlet to control the content and information within our own society."

Professor #AlexandraAndhov, Director, ALTeR, University of Auckland, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=6af56d26-c505-4373-b00b-d7d099e1a808

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"You only have to add a few adjectives in there and then you're telling people what *you* think ... And then you can put 'analysis' at the top. But in today's world the public wants and is ask for a much clearer distinction between news and opinion."

Dr #GregTreadwell, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2019031554/news-trust-up-after-years-of-slumps-storm-before-the-calm

Maybe news websites ought to have their opinion sections under subdomains, eg opinion.rnz.co.nz, with a recognizably different masthead and page appearance?

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"Dr Bryce Edwards is a transparency campaigner, used to run a thing called the Integrity Institute, which had backing to research these issues, now it's called The Democracy Project ..."

#ColinPeacock, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=e7df26f7-0add-4051-a4ac-36568ba69994

Really? It's news to me that The Democracy Project is a rebranding of the Integrity Institute. I thought the latter was a newer initiative. Can anyone confirm?

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Le accuse nei confronti di Meta, il colosso di Mark Zuckerberg, riguardanti presunte interferenze nelle elezioni politiche italiane del 2022 e nelle successive elezioni regionali, hanno sollevato gravi preoccupazioni.

Un’inchiesta condotta dalla trasmissione Rai Report, anticipata dal Fatto Quotidiano, ha rilevato come Meta avrebbe raccolto e analizzato i dati di oltre 6,5 milioni di utenti italiani.

https://politicamag.it/report-accusa-meta-di-interferenze-nelle-elezioni-del-2022/

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"Sean Plunket ... also had NZ First leader Winston Peters on, and he said the move to regulate online content was 'bordering on fascist', and called for the [Broadcasting Standards Authority] agency to be abolished."

#PhilVine, RNZ Senior Podcast Producer, 2026

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=09e9f485-f47e-492a-9e15-9e43e38ef641

My knee-jerk reaction is people often know their neighbours. So given Dogwhistle Peters has been bordering on fascism for years, he'd know

But seriously ...

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Non era un drone russo

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