Fake Believe by Dylan Reeve

Author:Dylan Reeve
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Upstart Press
Published: 2022-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Will ultimately have thier day of reckoning.

While the site isn’t explicit about what that reckoning might be, the most popular interpretation seems to be execution or, at best, life imprisonment.

The site features more than 150 names as ‘the accused’, many with photographs and email addresses. Each features a link to view the ‘allegations’ and can be commented and voted on by site visitors. Most on the list are politicians, with almost all MPs listed, but there are also academics, journalists, business people and public health officials on the list.

The comments, listed alongside public votes, are illustrative of the nature of the conspiracy beliefs underlying the whole concept.

‘For spreading lies and propaganda being complicit in crimes against humanity,’ writes an anonymous user alongside an affirmative vote for journalist Simon Wilson’s entry on the site.

‘Treason,’ writes Aldo simply, with his affirmative vote for Covid-19 Minister Chris Hipkins.

Any researcher or journalist who has written about the topic of Covid-denialism in New Zealand has likely received clear warnings from conspiracy theorists about their impending accountability before a tribunal at Nuremberg 2.0, as have many who have written simply about the basic medical facts.

I’ve been told before that I should be worried about my fate at the coming tribunals. I expect that publishing this book will result in some more reminders too.

I’m not worried though — just as five-year-old me didn’t believe in hell, 40-something me doesn’t believe in Nuremberg 2.0 or the military tribunals for members of the deep state.

Foreign influence

As New Zealand has started to see some higher-profile conspiracy promoters, such as the highly polished Voices for Freedom, and the somewhat less polished Counterspin Media, many have wondered aloud about the source of their funding and support.

Suspicion has often turned to overseas groups. At times it has even been suggested that local disinformation efforts might be the result of nation states — presumably looking to some of the destabilising campaigns executed within the United States by what appear to be groups connected to the Russian Government. Closer to home, there have been allegations of Chinese state involvement in campaigns targeting Australians.

There has not, as yet, been any concrete evidence of any such direct influence. Even Counterspin Media, which is often tied to Trump ally Steve Bannon in local reporting, doesn’t really seem to have benefited significantly from the relationship that saw their regular broadcasts carried by an online media service connected to Bannon.

In practice, I think, people overestimate how much it might cost for a determined individual or collective to outwardly present a polished image. And, similarly, I think people have underestimated just how many people are willing to kick in a small amount of money to support people they believe are somehow fighting for something they believe in. Even more so, there’s often a desire to ignore the sizeable number of people who are devoting considerable time and effort, without any personal profit, in order to share what they’ve come to believe is the truth.

All the high-profile, and seemingly professional, individuals and

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