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Two Tweets from Hamish Keith

Twitter is an awful place, mostly filled with bullying, nasty lefty liberal elite tossers, intent on hating anyone with a differing opinion from theirs. They love to incite mobs to destroy anyone they find offensive. One of these liberal elite tossers is Hamish Keith, a Ponsonby arts luvvie who has

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Elon Musk has been successful in his bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion Live shot of Twitter HQ at this very moment pic.twitter.com/XceYVa0VLl — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 25, 2022 Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

“Contempt if court” If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse our

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Digital Newsrooms Are Laying off Staff

Last month Buzzfeed News announced that it was cutting jobs in a move described by its staff as “gutting” their newsroom. As a result of the staff cuts, three of their editors resigned. A few weeks after Buzzfeed’s announcement, the parent company for The Intercept revealed that 20 of

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We Are the Easiest People to Fool

We Are the Easiest People to Fool

We know, thanks to leaked internal research, that the Meta stable of social media apps are toxic. Facebook, Instagram… they’re all mental and social poison, especially to teenagers. Meta knows this, because its own scientists have done the research. We know it, because the research was leaked. Yet, in

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Giddy up It’s Time to Join Us

Cancel culture makes people and organisations vulnerable. Activists go after organisations’ ad revenue by complaining to their advertisers. They go after individual’s jobs by complaining to their employers. Last year a Youtuber in New Zealand lost his job after a concerted effort by activists including Maori Party co-leader Debbie

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A Govt Obsessed With Controlling the Narrative

A Govt Obsessed With Controlling the Narrative

Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Dr Muriel Newman established the New Zealand Centre for Political Research as a public policy think tank in 2005 after nine years as a Member of Parliament. A former Chamber of Commerce President, her background is in business and education. Warning Long Read. 2105 words.

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The Dart Guns of Social Media

The Dart Guns of Social Media

Earlier I wrote about the corrosive nature of social media against democracy and trust. Today I want to explore the poison dart guns of social media and how they are instrumental in the poisoning and polarisation of society. Social media gives the ‘weak’ a powerful poison dart with which they

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

RNZ at its stellar best – If Robbo is “Acting” Deputy PM, then who is the real one? If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

“Snactions” lol. Try Jaffas. If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the share buttons at the top or bottom of the article.If you would like to access exclusive Member content or just remove the ads to make your reading experience more enjoyable click here to browse

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The BFD Has a Beer Budget but Our Readers Have Champagne Tastes

Last year Stuff reported on the extent of media bludging from government troughs. It is eye-watering just how much taxpayer coin some media organisations have availed themselves of. Media companies large and small claimed funding from the Government’s media package last year. In April 2020, Broadcasting, Communications and Media

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Edited ‘Facts’ Can Warp the Truth

nzdsos.com In this long read, Dr Guy Hatchard explores how information that is either mis-representated or left out completely can lead to a false narrative. He looks at the mis- and missing information around myocarditis and athletes and at the construct that anti-vaxxers suffered child abuse. Warning Long read:

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Does Govt Funding of Journalism Support a Healthy Democracy?

Public Interest Journalism Propaganda has received an $18m boost with the announcement of funding for an additional 110 journalists across New Zealand with “a specific mandate to produce stories that keep New Zealanders informed and engaged, and support a healthy democracy”. Don’t you just love the Newspeak? War is

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Money for Nothing and Their Editors for Free

Money for Nothing and Their Editors for Free

You will see from the information below that the Government is paying the salaries of MSM Editors so that the Media organisations themselves do not have to fund the positions themselves from their own revenue. This means that the minute the Government stops the funding the Editors will lose their

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The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

The BFD Stuff Up of the Day

Hey Stuff,  what’s an “electronic” powered bus?  Does it run on used televisions or something? Hmm.  Imagine a hybrid electric [LITHIUM BATTERY] / HYDROGEN accident and subsequent fire. Sit back with the popcorn and watch for the mushroom cloud… If you enjoyed this Stuff up please share it using the

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White House Won’t Cop to Their Lies

White House Won’t Cop to Their Lies

For some strange reason, the Washington Post, which obsessively printed everything its team deemed a “lie” from President Trump, abruptly stopped counting the moment Joe Biden took office. Well, perhaps not so strange, really: the legacy media are desperately covering for the Biden White House in any way they can.

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