“There is no policy, there’s no framework, there’s no real regulatory mechanism, there’s no best practice, and there’s no legal oversight,” Dr Hattotuwa told RNZ News. “Every institutional mechanism and framework that was established during the pandemic to deal with disinformation has now been dissolved. There is nothing that I know in the public domain of what the government is doing with regards to disinformation,” Dr Hattotuwa said. Dr Hattotuwa said Ardern had led the world in her own rhetoric around the problem, but real action now needed to be taken. There has been no translation into policy around that which she articulated publicly, so I think that needs to occur.
