''Nya Dagbladet'' () is a Swedish

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associated with the National Democrats, a defunct

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political party in Sweden. It is known for promoting

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, including

Holocaust denial Historical negationism, Denial of the Holocaust is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the genocide of Jews by the Nazi Party, Nazis is a fabrication or exaggeration. It includes making one or more of the following false claims: ...

and

white genocide The white genocide, white extinction, or white replacement conspiracy theory is a White nationalism, white nationalist conspiracy theory that claims there is a deliberate plot (often Antisemitic trope, blamed on Jews) to cause the extinction of ...

, as well as anti-vaccine misinformation,

alternative medicine Alternative medicine refers to practices that aim to achieve the healing effects of conventional medicine, but that typically lack biological plausibility, testability, repeatability, or supporting evidence of effectiveness. Such practices are ...

and pro-Kremlin propaganda regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

History

''Nya Dagbladet'' was established in 2012. Jonathan Leman, a senior researcher at the anti-racist Expo Foundation, said that Nya Dagbladet was an offshoot of the National Democrats, a far-right political party created by expelled members of the

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. Markus Andersson is its editor-in-chief. In January 2023, Expo reported that the

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(FLI), a United States-based research institute, had offered a grant of $100,000 to a foundation set up by ''Nya Dagbladet''. In response, FLI president

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said that the institute had only become aware of ''Nya Dagbladet'''s positions during

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processes a few months after the grant was initially offered, and that the grant had been immediately revoked.

Content

Expo has described ''Nya Dagbladet'' as "pro-Nazi". The paper promotes

white supremacist White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white people. White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine ...

and

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content, including

, and has endorsed the

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. It also advocates for

ethnopluralism Ethnopluralism or ethno-pluralism, also known as ethno-differentialism, is a far-right political model which attempts to preserve separate and bordered ethno-cultural regions. According to its promoters, significant foreign cultural elements in a g ...

, a concept in which ethnic groups are separated from one another. ''Nya Dagbladet'' has published favourable coverage of American white supremacist

Jared Taylor Samuel Jared Taylor (born September 15, 1951) is an American white supremacist and editor of ''American Renaissance'', an online magazine espousing such opinions, which was founded by Taylor in 1990. He is also the president of ''American Re ...

, and has translated and published his writing. Leman said in 2022 that ''Nya Dagbladet'' "has been a bridge between the conspiratorial milieu and the far right milieu". He said the paper "became a vital junction during the

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for conspiracy theories and anti-lockdown demonstrations, championing ideas from alternative medication and

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to Holocaust denial and that ethnic diversity leads to

" and added, "It has also been pro-Kremlin for years." In January 2023, ''Nya Dagbladet'' published an article claiming that cardiac arrests among athletes had significantly increased following the rollout of the

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s, citing what it called a study by cardiologist Peter A. McCullough and scientist Pangis Polekret. The fact-checking organisation Logically found that the supposed study was actually a

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, which cited a blog post by GoodSciencing as its source. GoodSciencing did not provide proof that the athletes had died due to complications caused by the vaccines.

Fake RAND report

In September 2022, ''Nya Dagbladet'' published a document it claimed was leaked from the

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, a U.S.-based think tank. The report, which was supposedly published that January, claimed the U.S. planned the

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and the subsequent energy crisis to weaken Germany and divide Europe.

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noted that the document's content resembled statements by members of the far-right

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conspiracy theory movement. ''Nya Dagbladet'''s article was shared by Russian state media outlet RT and the Russian Embassy in Sweden on

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. RAND denied publishing such a report, stating that it was a fake. ''Nya Dagbladet'' responded to RAND and Lead Stories's

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about the report by claiming they had not specifically addressed why the report was a fake. Logically noted that the report contained many issues indicating it was a fake, including multiple factual, spelling, grammatical and formatting errors, and several discrepancies with RAND's other published reports. In response to Logically's request for comment, ''Nya Dagbladet'' claimed to have never said the document was authentic, which contradicted its original article's headline: "Shocking Document: How the US planned the war and energy crisis in Europe".

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://nyadagbladet.se 2012 establishments in Sweden Alternative medicine publications Antisemitism in Sweden Anti-vaccination media Conspiracist websites COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy Far-right politics in Sweden Holocaust denial in Sweden Swedish news websites White genocide conspiracy theory