This week we got told the economy is both looking up and looking down in various headlines and certain Prime Minister’s Facebook feeds - so which is true? Well technically it’s both of them and we need to be wary what gets pushed by politicians as we head into the election year because of it.

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Please check your enrolment details - in the three weeks since the Summer Holidays kicked in, we’ve managed to see a cavalcade of playing politics, targeted anger towards our bravest, silence when a voice is important and an absentee PM who is playing with his Spotify while telling us he’s working from home.  And this year they are making it harder to vote - so now is a good time to check your details are up to date.

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You’ve probably seen Facebook commentators on the right claim that 65 to 85% of Kiwi journalists self identify as having a left bias so we shouldn’t trust the media - but the media we are presented is so much more than just the words a journalist wrote. So here are four tricks MSM news media uses online to set the agenda on news and tell you how to think and react.

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So many of us lack the tools to be able to work out the bias in our media - sometimes that’s because of our own bias, sometimes it’s because we weren’t trained how to identify it, and other times it’s because of subliminal media markers we don’t even realise exist.  So here’s a bit of a spotter guide to help you identify bias in local media.

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As a concept, Pink Slime news has been around a while - cheap, quickly produced, rehashed and reheated news stories that have seemingly got no writers and weirdly aren’t accountable to the structures and frameworks in place to make sure we can trust the news. And in the age of AI, Pink Slime News is back on the menu - even here in Aotearoa.

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As 2025 comes to an end, I sat down with an absolute legend of Aotearoa investigative journalism, Bryan Bruce, to take a look back at the year that was and a peek at the year to come!

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We all want what’s best for our loved ones, and the holidays are the best time of year to help those susceptible to RWAI - Right Wing Algorithmic Indoctrination. Give the gift of freedom and a sense of safety to them these holidays…

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It’s really easy to be overwhelmed with all the shitty news, but there are some good things happening - or objectively not terrible things. 

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HYEFU was bad, but the worst part is that we keep being told we need to suffer for goals that keep being moved, creating cruel, harmful outcomes on our most disadvantaged for a promise of jam… tomorrow.

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In the fog of war - that moment as a major event is developing and the news rushes to cover it without having access to all the data, the risk of an information vacuum shoots up exponentially - which leaves people vulnerable to those wanting to hijack the narratives around these events.

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