(''Society News'') or is a Swedish

right-wing populist Right-wing populism, also called national populism and right populism, is a political ideology that combines right-wing politics with populist rhetoric and themes. Its rhetoric employs anti- elitist sentiments, opposition to the Establishm ...

online news website founded in 2017. Oxford University's Internet Institute's Project on

Computational Propaganda Computational propaganda is the use of computational tools (algorithms and automation) to distribute misleading information using social media networks. The advances in digital technologies and social media resulted in enhancement in methods of pro ...

identified as one of the three primary " junk news" sources in Sweden, alongside and .

History and activities

The site and its predecessors is said to have made an impact due to their "relentless reporting on immigrant crime". is the successor to the news website ("De-pixelated"), also closely linked to Kent Ekeroth. was labeled a

racist Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity over another. It may also me ...

hate-site,

xenophobic Xenophobia (from (), 'strange, foreign, or alien', and (), 'fear') is the fear or dislike of anything that is perceived as being foreign or strange. It is an expression that is based on the perception that a conflict exists between an in-gr ...

and

right-wing extremist Far-right politics, often termed right-wing extremism, encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, and nativism. This political spectrum situates itself on the far end of the ...

by Swedish and international media, while describing itself as "an independent Sweden-friendly website for news and opinions". The site leaned close to the

counter-jihad Counter-jihad (also known as the counter-jihad movement) is a self-titled Islamophobia, anti-Muslim political movement loosely consisting of authors, bloggers, think tanks, demonstrators, and other activists across the Western world. Proponents are ...

movement and supported

Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...

. was itself the successor to the news site ("Politically Incorrect"), founded in 2008, which also had close ties to Ekeroth and the counter-jihad movement.

Legal issues

* In October 2021, the editor of the website Mats Dagerlind was sentenced to 40 daily fines, in damages and in legal fees for libel against a journalist at ''

Dagens Nyheter (, ), abbreviated ''DN'', is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It is published in Stockholm and aspires to full national and international coverage, and is widely considered Sweden's newspaper of record A newspaper of record is a major nationa ...

''. The conviction concerned Dagerlind describing the journalist of Syrian descent as a "suspected jihadist" with ties to the

al-Nusra Front Al-Nusra Front or Jabhat al-Nusra or Jabhat Nusrat Ahl al-Sham, also known as Front for the Conquest of the Levant, and also later known as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham was a Salafi-jihadist organization that fought against Ba'athist Syria, Ba'athist ...

and

al-Qaeda , image = Flag of Jihad.svg , caption = Jihadist flag, Flag used by various al-Qaeda factions , founder = Osama bin Laden{{Assassinated, Killing of Osama bin Laden , leaders = {{Plainlist, * Osama bin Lad ...

. * In February 2024, Dagerlind was again convicted for two counts of libel and one count of aggravated libel, for a series of articles that accused a person of being reprehensible and criminal. He was sentenced to one month in prison and in damages. * Samhällsnytt has also been sued multiple times for libel and theft of copyrighted material. * At least one writer for Samhällsnytt was denied parliamentary press accreditation after being deemed a security risk due to ties to Russian intelligence, according to the

Swedish Security Service The Swedish Security Service ( , SÄPO , , formerly , RPS/Säk, until 1989) is a Sweden, Swedish Government agencies in Sweden, government agency organized under the Ministry of Justice (Sweden), Ministry of Justice. It operates as a security ...

. * Samhällsnytt has been routinely criticised for unethical publications by .

References

External links

Official site
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