Opinion - After a documentary aired on TVNZ last night, viewers should not confuse the Centrepoint commune's promiscuous lifestyle with polyamory, Anke Richter writes.
Gemma Conroy, ABC Science Reporter
Analysis - For two years, Jitarth Jadeja spent most of his time in the darkest corners of the web reading about conspiracy theories.
A person wears a QAnon sweatshirt during a pro-Trump rally on October 3, 2020 in the borough of Staten Island in New York City.
Photo: AFP / 2020 Getty Images
Jadeja, 33, was an avid follower of QAnon - a baseless, far-right theory that started by alleging then-US president Donald Trump was fighting against a secret group of elites who ran a global child sex trafficking ring.
For hours each day, Jadeja devoured cryptic predictions shared by an anonymous online poster called Q on the imageboard website 4chan.
New Zealand's far-right hate preachers and the platform YouTube gave them to build a movement • Speaker • Public Address publicaddress.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from publicaddress.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In the days and weeks after the massacres, Carl Bromley, a pro-Trump, pro-gun pastor with the Life Connection Baptist Fellowship in Christchurch, was busy on social media.
His Facebook page filled with posts about attacks on Christians by Muslims in Nigeria (which he claims went ignored by the media), criticism of moves to tighten gun control, outrage at calls to drop the name of the Crusaders rugby team and numerous links to articles on an anti-Muslim conspiracy blog. Those who drive Christianity out of society are paving the way for Islam, he wrote. Dunedin • Since Nov 2006 • 499 posts ReportReply
Hi Carl,