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On March 22, Billy Te Kahika was a modestly successful blues musician, imploring the NZ government to move to level 4 lockdown to protect our people from COVID-19. Within a couple of months, he had become the founder of the NZ Public Party, a prolific public figure spreading COVID-19-related conspiracy fantasies (5G, Bill Gates etc). How did this happen? Three words; corporate social media:
https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/14-09-2020/how-billy-tk-plunged-down-the-covid-conspiracy-rabbit-hole/