“Says New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her country doesn’t have to deal with the “rage of older white men” because “we’ve never allowed Rupert Murdoch to set up a media outlet here.”
Social media posts
Claim dated 4 Apr 2022.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The quote is fabricated. A communications expert in New Zealand made a related comment to The Guardian in 2020, but even that quote is distorted in this social media post.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 4 April 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 April 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
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