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Report from the country’s spy agency, the NZSIS, also claims foreign intelligence ‘persistently’ conduct operations against New Zealand

The Prime Minister and other ministers should be removed from Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee to ensure the work of agencies responsible f

US-based NewsGuard is rating New Zealand's significant news sites for reliability - and even preparing ‘nutrition labels’ to warn users to treat them with caution. NewsGuard is also using human journalists to train generative AI innovations like ChatGPT to minimise the potential for misinformation-spreading on an epic scale.  

Analysts say country’s strategic importance in Pacific has attracted attention of nations such as China

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New Zealand’s top intelligence agencies are becoming increasingly concerned about foreign interference and malicious cyber activity that continues ...

The government's national security arm says it is working on how to address the spread of disinformation and this is not directed specifically at the general election.

New Zealand intelligence agencies are growing more concerned about both foreign interference and malicious cyber activity ahead of elections in October, the country’s intelligence chiefs said on Monday. “It's fair to say that concern about foreign interference as well as malicious cyber activity is growing,” Andrew Hampton, director general of the New Zealand Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), told media after testifying at parliament.

The incidence of other countries harassing ethnic communities, and influencing academics, government officials and media is increasing, New Zealand’s top s

Authorities did not name countries, pointed to New Zealand’s censure of China for its involvement in a hacking spree in 2021 and Russia for its malicious cyber activity against Ukraine in 2022.