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REPORTER: "No, I mean, how do you fix -- how do you fix the anger? How to fix those messages of all violence in these people?" [crosstalk]
ARDERM: "And that’s -- and that’s -- actually it does come back to mis -- disinformation. For quite some time now, I’ve obviously been confronted by protests and what has stood out to me is that fact that so many are there based on things that are simply untrue. And so this is an issue that the globe is grappling with, and we do need to grapple with, because seeing people so enraged by things that just aren’t true is worrisome and it’s something that we are all going to have to confront. Right now, though, obviously a big focus for us is getting New Zealand through the pandemic, getting us safely through. And some of these longer term issues we are going to have to grapple with in the future."