NO SWEDEN DEMOCRATS LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG!

Associate professor, University of Gothenburg.

Professor, Dept. of Swedish language

Curator and Artist based in Gothenburg

Film maker and researcher

While I understand why having a range of political perspectives on communication is educational, and while the ability to question party officials on the legitimacy of such strategies may also yield interesting insights, this NY Times article provides compelling evidence that SD Party members even at the last election have aided in the spread of fake news to bolster their vote share. Such messaging is deliberately misleading and usually harmful and stigmatising. https://tinyurl.com/NYT-sweden-nationalism

While I absolutely understand why having a range of political perspectives on communication can be educational for students, and while the ability to question party officials on the legitimacy of such strategies may also yield interesting insights, this NY Times article provides compelling evidence that Party members even at the last election have effectively aided in the spread of fake news to bolster their vote share. Such messaging is deliberately misleading and usually harmful and stigmatising. https://tinyurl.com/NYT-sweden-nationalism Quoting the article: "For years, the Sweden Democrats had struggled to make their case to the public. Many mainstream media outlets declined their ads. The party even had difficulty getting the postal service to deliver its mailers. So it built a network of closed Facebook pages whose reach would ultimately exceed that of any other party. But to thrive in the viral sense, that network required fresh, alluring content. It drew on a clutch of relatively new websites whose popularity was exploding. Members of the Sweden Democrats helped create two of them: Samhallsnytt (News in Society) and Nyheter Idag (News Today). By the 2018 election year, they, along with a site called Fria Tider (Free Times), were among Sweden’s 10 most shared news sites. These sites each reached one-tenth of all Swedish internet users a week and, according to an Oxford University study, accounted for 85 percent of the election-related “junk news” — deemed deliberately distorted or misleading — shared online. There were other sites, too, all injecting anti-immigrant and Islamophobic messaging into the Swedish political bloodstream. “Immigration Behind Shortage of Drinking Water in Northern Stockholm,” read one recent headline. “Refugee Minor Raped Host Family’s Daughter; Thought It Was Legal,” read another. “Performed Female Genital Mutilation on Her Children — Given Asylum in Sweden,” read a third." /GU Investigative Journalism Masters st

Histirieförfalskning och rasism behöver inte mer luft.

While I absolutely understand why having a range of political perspectives on communication can be educational for students, and while the ability to question party officials on the legitimacy of such strategies may also yield interesting insights, this NY Times article provides compelling evidence that Party members even at the last election have effectively aided in the spread of fake news to bolster their vote share. Such messaging as described below is harmful and deliberately misleading. https://tinyurl.com/r4z975g Quoting from the article: "For years, the Sweden Democrats had struggled to make their case to the public. Many mainstream media outlets declined their ads. The party even had difficulty getting the postal service to deliver its mailers. So it built a network of closed Facebook pages whose reach would ultimately exceed that of any other party. But to thrive in the viral sense, that network required fresh, alluring content. It drew on a clutch of relatively new websites whose popularity was exploding. Members of the Sweden Democrats helped create two of them: Samhallsnytt (News in Society) and Nyheter Idag (News Today). By the 2018 election year, they, along with a site called Fria Tider (Free Times), were among Sweden’s 10 most shared news sites. These sites each reached one-tenth of all Swedish internet users a week and, according to an Oxford University study, accounted for 85 percent of the election-related “junk news” — deemed deliberately distorted or misleading — shared online. There were other sites, too, all injecting anti-immigrant and Islamophobic messaging into the Swedish political bloodstream. “Immigration Behind Shortage of Drinking Water in Northern Stockholm,” read one recent headline. “Refugee Minor Raped Host Family’s Daughter; Thought It Was Legal,” read another. “Performed Female Genital Mutilation on Her Children — Given Asylum in Sweden,” read a third." ****** //GU Investigative Journalism Masters student

Student, BA in Cultural studies

Student at the cultural institution

NEJ till SD

This is not the right way to invite people with opinions that are not humble and don’t show love.

För demokratiska universitet !

Ph.D.

Låt inte fascister inta scenen på universiteten! No pasaran!

Phd candidate, School of Global Studies

BA photography

Lecturer at the Department of Social Work, Mid Sweden University

BA Photography student

Richard Jomshof är en nazist.