Prime minister has faced increasingly vociferous and explicit calls for violence against her since start of pandemic
A loose coalition of anti-vaccine protesters camped outside New Zealand’s parliament in February.Researchers on the Te Pūnaha Matatini disinformation project, which monitors misinformation and online extremism, found that the level of violent rhetoric against the prime minister had risen exponentially in recent years, accompanying a parallel rise inparticipation in online groups sharing misinformation, conspiracy theories and extremist language.
“The vocabulary … has migrated from implicit and elusive references to her murder, assassination and rape now to explicit calls for it.”
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