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Anti-disinformation and conspiracy theories in Aotearoa New Zealand. Don't be duped.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 Voices for Freedom and Local Elections 🚨

Last local elections VFF encouraged people to run for local council. Their plan was semi-successful, electing dozens of councillors and board members. This time around, they're far more organised. Read: www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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A photo of Voices for Freedom coordinators at their VFF Connects event in 2022. The background has an illuminated VFF sign. Three people are wearing VFF t-shirts and many are wearing a lanyard. There are eight people circled in red.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 1m

ACT candidates answered the same way in the VFF Council Watch survey. Not open ended questions though. Very much seemed like someone else filled them out for them

Marc Daalder @marcdaalder.bsky.social · 4h

Act Local candidates provided identical responses to some of Newsroom's open-ended survey questions, suggesting they had coordinated or been instructed to reply a certain way.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/08/p...

Parliamentary parties crowd out other blocs in local elections

Nationwide, Parliamentary parties are entrenching their influence in local elections over that of locally derived groupings.

newsroom.co.nz

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 5h

But both Andrea and Paula knew who they were getting into bed with. Some of the so-called attacks are holding them and the group accountable for their actions.

I don't trust Tom Hunt. He knows what's going on in Wellington. There were better candidates to talk to about this issue.

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 8d

In 2023, utterly false rumours spread online about a non-existent sex tape. The first mention online was Resistance Kiwi, AKA Glenn Inwood.

These are the dirty tactics that Better Wellington employs, and Independent Together candidates are okay with it.

www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360...

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 5h

This article is important. But the framing is concerning. Paula and Andrea were on the Better Wellington linked Independent Together ticket. BW have been spreading vile attacks on women councillors, including Tory Whanau for years. Doesn't excuse the abuse towards them.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 8d

Lydia Gliddon is a member of CRCR on Telegram, attending multiple meetings.

Lydia's Facebook is locked. But I have found one comment from 2021: "When does the Jacinda dictatorship stop? How far will she go? We are losing our
freedom and choices by the day ...... will voting be abolished next?"

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 2d

Whether against Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, Ghahraman, Ardern, other MPs, Wiles, Bloomfield, & others involved in pandemic response, transgender activists, drag queens, judges, lawyers or academics - effects of doxxing are inherently harmful, & often leads to kinetic violence or vandalism.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 1d

Hate to say it but there is a cadre of new Gen-X supporters, pushing the party further right. We're stuck with them.

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 4d

Correction: This is Murray Chong, not Phil Mauger—a case of mistaken identity. It should have been obvious as this was in New Plymouth.

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

VFF coordinator Emma Ryburn-Phengsavath (independent) is standing. In '23, Emma started an unvaccinated breast milk charity. She lays out VFF's plan well: "VFF are the 101 freedom fighter's - put another way, we are deliberately appealing to people just waking up to the tyranny."

More to come.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

He's a NZ First supporting, Ivermectin promoting, anti-vaccine acitivist who has said "The corrupt system is being exposed like never before thanks to the fact that we must walk through this valley. Only an awakened people can fight and defeat this pervading evil inherent within our system"

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

Westwards' Kevin Murphy is running for local board and is a VFF coordinator. He is extremely active on Telegram. Like all VFF coordinators, they have been using RCR's anti-climate change action documentary Managed out as a way to attract normies to movement, inviting his Westwards mates.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

Craig Lord claims not to be a conspiracy theorist yet in 2022 he said "“I will not run around in circles yelling the sky is falling, just because we are told to by the United Nations” while in a September 1 tweet, he said: “I’ll be fighting against 2030 and WEF [World Economic Forum].”"

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

Westwards also have Allan Geddes. He's shared Brian Tamaki's Freedom's and Rights Coaliton, disinfo spreader The Daily Examiner, a video calling Ardern a "globalist puppet", and a meme calling mask wearers sheep.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

Jacob Curran's X shares many anti-immigration posts from "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory promoter William McGimsey, anti-trans activist Corina Shields, Elliot Ikilei, Tommy Robinson, and NZ First. He called to deport academic Mohan Dutta and celebrated Benjamin Doyle's resignation.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

Leao Tildsley was a New Conservatives candidate in 2020. She was an anti-mandate agitator and stood for DemocracyNZ in 2023. She is a supporter of Graham Phillips, the first person convicted of sabotage in NZ, for his attack on the electrical grid.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

In Auckland, a large group is running under Westwards, led by Cr. Ken Turner. Ken is an RCR favourite, appearing six times. He also signed VFF's CouncilWatch NZ anti-WHO letter, opposing the signing of any pandemic treaties in the future. Ken appeared on NZ First candidate Erika Harvey's podcast

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

In a 22 interview with Liz Gunn, Hibiscus & Bays local board member Leanne Willis likened New Zealand’s Covid-19 response to Nazi Germany: “for a liberal kind of party that she (Jacinda Ardern) was heading, that it was so draconian and just had all of these remnants of the Holocaust.”

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

Darag pushes pseudoscience, scaremongering about climate resilience actions, and pseudo-history that denigrates the place of Maori in New Zealand.

Coast People has three others on their ticket: Gary Brown, Gary George, and Leanne Willis.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

VFF Coordinator Darag Rennie is running under Coast People. Like Jackie Wheeler, Darag organised the Julian Batchelor Stop Co-Governance tour in Orewa. He believes we have been lied to "about diet, climate, covid, NZ history, racial and gender theory, overpopulation" to "divide and conquer."

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

Pete Marshall stood with conspiracy-peddling Rock The Vote in '22. He posts to AK Liberation Project (Pete Mars), organises pop-ups for VFF and CouncilWatchNZ, and promotes NZ First.

He admits the 2nd COVID inquiry was to take out their political opponents, calling them a "band of evil dwarfs"

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Auckland VFF coordinators running for council

Three COs are running for council in Auckland, two are on a larger ticket.

Pete Marshall is the only person standing under Concerned Ratepayers Herne Bay. Yes, another CR group.

Pete is an admin on VFF Telegram channel, Hear our Voices

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

The candidate who fronted the vigil:

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 8d

It doesn't look like Rachel and her WRRA team mate, NZ First Whanganui candidate Bill Arnold, are running candidates... until you look at the NZ First local committee meetings.

Meet Azian Zulkifli (right). Azian is a constant campaigner for NZ First, travelling to other cities for meetings

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

a hole in the wall with a floral pattern on it

ALT: a hole in the wall with a floral pattern on it

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 7d

There was a plan to take over ACT in 2022 that failed, then eyes were set on NZ First in early 2023. They didn't need to try.

Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 8d

Laurie has a candidate he is supporting for Napier District Council, Te Kira Lawrence, who appears to be a NZ First staffer. She's getting support from a bunch of NZ First candidates.

Thanks for coming down this rabbit warren. There is more to come. Next, we look to Auckland.

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Undupably @undupable.bsky.social · 8d

I bet you are wondering if there is any connection to Elizabeth Mundt and Upskilling for Local Government?

Elizabeth Mundt's (Eliza Lucy Hoss) has commented on posts that include some of these photos.

And another U4LG member has too, Laurie Turnbull, Napier NZ First candidate in 2023.

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