Is the media actually checking facts?
In what we’re sure they thought would be a two-for-one hit-job on Winston Peters and the freedom movement, Stuff fact-checked WP’s debate statement that 11,000 workers gained vaccine exemptions when mandates were enforced upon the rest of the population, only to find out, well—it’s fact. Fact check: Did 11,000 people really get a vaccine exemption? Politicians vying for your vote made some startling arguments during The Press Leaders Debate this week, so Stuff fact-checked several of them. Olivia Wannan reports on who was right and…