This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame
Politicians who fanned these flames should hang their heads in shame.
Time and again we've seen this story play out. Single incidents used to fuel a far right narrative - and communities across the nation paying the price.
Peter Beaumont
Zack Polanski
Updated modelling of the current size of the Ebola outbreak by Imperial and collaborators. Ruth McCabe and co-authors did an incredible job at integrating continuously changing case data 👇
www.thelancet.com
The ongoing outbreak of Bundibugyo virus disease, a form of Ebola virus disease caused
by the Bundibugyo virus, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is evolving rapidly.
As of May 27, 2026, 1031 su...
Trust is key to epidemic prevention and response.
Lessons from previous Ebola outbreaks, from @bbcmediaaction.bsky.social, on the importance of building relationships with local media outlets, journalists, and health authorities before a crisis develops:
www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/...
"Political speech by [Winston Peters] one of the country’s most senior, and recognised politicians recasts institutions as enemies, and then leaves comment ecologies, and online grievance economies to drive the charge upward, from disagreement into betrayal, capture, treason or criminality." #nzpol
Ursula Hofer
Which would you rather have for $65 m - a year of public transport cap of $20 a week, or 588 meters of motorway?
New Zealand, WHO, and the conversion of disinformation into foreign policy - great article by @sanjanah.bsky.social
sanjanah.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/n...
As a new Ebola outbreak takes hold in DRC, and misinformation spreads, here's how media can help
"But I don't use public transport."
"You also don't use that one road in the Waikato that's costing enough to fund fare caps for hundreds of thousands of people for 26 years."
"Oh."
