Prominent Covid-19 conspiracy influencer Chantelle Baker, who was a mainstay of the anti-Government protest at Parliament earlier this year, has lost her Facebook page ahead of this week's planned repeat protest.
The social media behemoth issued the ban yesterday , Baker confirmed on another Facebook page she runs that isn't under her own name.
"We're gone but we're not out - not quite yet," she told the other page's roughly 7600 followers in a live video about an hour after receiving the news.
The now-defunct page under her name had garnered about 97,000 followers.
Baker, the daughter of former New Conservatives leader Leighton Baker, is one of the public faces of the anti-vaccine and conspiracy movement in New Zealand. She has said she intends to attend the Parliament protest on Tuesday.
A recent report by independent research group The Disinformation Project noted that Baker's Facebook Live broadcasts - although a "super spreader" of false claims - often had greater engagement than mainstream media during the previous Parliament protest.
She suggested, incorrectly, that Antifa was behind the fires and violence on March 3 when the protest was broken up. Since then, she has posted in support of Russia's war in Ukraine and continued to share information in conflict with public health advice.
In May, the Herald asked Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, about disinformation from the Parliament protest and about Baker's incorrect content in particular. The company...
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