Tuiono Teanau; Salesa JennyTEANAU TUIONO (Green): Madam Speaker this is not as Shakespeare would put it the winter of our discontent" because it's the wrong season but rather is "the summer of misinformation". Misinformation has undermined our public health response has undermined our response to the climate crisis and undermined faith in the democratic process and in some cases undermined belief in a common reality itself. I mean how can you have a conversation with someone about maths if they don't believe in numbers? How do you tell someone that the YouTube videos and Facebook videos that they keep sending you are not a replacement for an in-person engagement with an expert in epidemiology or microbiology—experts in real life?I've watched a YouTube video on how to fly a plane. However I think it would be very unwise for Air New Zealand to let me fly a plane even though I watched that video twice. So I am—and I think we all should be—perplexed in the situation that we have found ourselves in.Todd Muller: You'd be a natural.TEANAU TUIONO: I'd be a natural Mr Todd Muller says. Citizens need timely and accurate information about their rights and responsibilities knowledge of our political institutions and an appreciation of each other's needs interests and aspirations. An independent media must rest on the foundation of a strong regulatory framework that reinforces responsible self-management. Of course the media play a part in disseminating those ideas and information and I reflect on a documentary I watched while I was flatting in Aro Valley in the 1990s and it was by Noam Chomsky which was about how corporate ownership can influence the framing of news stories. It was called Manufacturing Consent. However I'm not sure how much the corporate overlords have over the editorial decisions of the press gallery but I felt an incredible sense of uncomfortable irony by some outside denouncing the corporate control of mainstream media while broadcasting those opinions through the corporate control social media. These people are telling us that these journalists are controlled by corporate media and by the way they're telling us that by another medium of corporate control media. For me this is a contradiction in terms. I expect that there is an editorial process and decisions are made—stories are aired—by actual live people. I don't know. I'm not a journalist. I'm assuming this about them. But you don't have that in social media. Anyone with any crazy conspiracy theory which hits the algorithm and the engagement will get the likes and people become engaged in it.But how many people have disappeared down rabbit holes because of some absolute bollocks they've seen on Facebook? I think what we are in the midst of is the undermining of the democratic institutions and we've seen that with what happened at Capitol Hill in the United States currently what's happening at the US and Canada border and also what's happened with religious and nationalist violence in India as well. And while mainstream media may have editors and directors who may or may not be under the persuasion of their corporate masters their algorithm the AI is not human and that is what has been driving social engagement on media because its primary motive is to make in the case of Facebook money. It determines that the thousands of contents that show up in our social media feeds are amongst the hundred things that you will engage with on that day or in that time.The media wields significant social cultural and economic power which must be used responsibly and that in my view must include social media. The media should inform educate and entertain in a way that supports citizens to participate effectively in democracy and we have seen that being hijacked by extremist right-wing elements. So for me it's not just about the freedom of speech but also about the freedom of reach. No one should have the right to algorithmic amplification and this House needs to take responsibility for that. It's something that the Government must take grip of but also us as parliamentarians around the House as well.When people talk to me about freedom I say to them "If your freedom ends and begins with your individuality then you are being coerced and guided into more extreme right-wing fringe elements." and we've seen that outside.So for me one of the ways that we can ensure that we can pull people out of the rabbit hole or to make sure that they don't go down the rabbit hole at all is to make sure that their surroundings are as stable as possible. So that it includes making sure that everybody has liveable incomes warm housing; making sure they have access to essential services free N95s—these flash masks as well. All of these things combine to make people and families safe and secure. When they have that safety and security around them they are less likely to tumble down into the rabbit hole. We've got a lot of work ahead of us. It must be about regulating the big corporate social media giants but also—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Jenny Salesa): Order! Thank you. The member's time is up. The next call is a split call. Helen White—five minutes."