New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that the country's politics are less extreme than others' because Rupert Murdoch was never allowed to set up a media outlet there. In early April 2022, social media posts spread a fake quote attributed to New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. It doesn’t come up in search engine searches for the quote, nor does it come up in a search of transcripts for the New Zealand Parliament. One commenter on the Instagram posted noted that the quote did not come from Ardern, but from David Cormack, former spokesman for New Zealand’s left-leaning Green party. And we did find a quote from him that was similar, though not an exact match, in an October 2020 article in the British publication The Guardian.

Source: Fox News April 05, 2022 21:57 UTC