The U.S. MAGA far right's playbook enters New Zealand politics out in the open. When I made a straightforward fact-based statement that Charlie Kirk is a white supremacist far-right activist, I did not anticipate it being the target of an organized disinformation campaign. But what followed revealed something quite sinister about how far-right tactics have entered New Zealand's mainstream politics. Let me set clearly what actually happened—and why it concerns us all. In the rest of the post, I will analyze the anatomy of far-right disinformation and its networks of travel from the Trump MAGA ecosystem to Aotearoa New Zealand. What I Actually Said My initial tweet was straightforward: "Charlie Kirk is a white supremacist far right figure" and that attempting to pay homage to him in New Zealand's Parliament revealed "who is backing the far right in NZ mainstream politics." This was not hyperbole. This was based on documented fact from such trusted sourc...
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