From troll farms to racist hate speech, nationalists’ bullying tactics are having a chilling effect on political journalism
mployees at Sweden’s national news channel, TV4, were last month told to avoid wearing clothing or badges that might identify their employer’s logo in public. The security risk was deemed too big.
The conservative coalition, which is running the country with parliamentary support from the Sweden Democrats, has responded tepidly to the scandal. The prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, firstthe anonymous accounts, but later backtracked, adopting a strategy of whataboutery, attacking the main opposition Social Democrats over an old controversy in which a a briefly activeUnsurprisingly, this response went down well with the nationalists.
An MP for the Sweden Democrats used the term “ljugmedia”, which has echoes of Goebbels’ Nazi slur, Lügenpresse This is a particularly serious challenge for Sweden and its neighbours. The Nordic model is built on high trust in governing institutions, in the media, in academia and science, as well as interpersonal relations. When the Scandinavian countries were all clustered at the top of the UN’srecently, the report specifically referred to the high levels of trust in these countries. More than 60% of Swedes still say that “most people can be trusted”.
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