Call the fact check about how employees of SD’s communications department run anonymous accounts on the internet has received a lot of attention this week.
“Don’t spread false information”
On Aftonbladet debate SD leader Jimmie Åkesson now goes out and criticizes TV4 for the way the report has been made. Among other things, he opposes how the term “troll factory” is used.
SD and the revelation about “troll factories”
Mats Knutson on the L proposal: Old political trick
A: “L puts Tidö cooperation before the best of Sweden”
“Another thing that deserves to be clarified is the concept of ‘troll factory’. I mean that during its review, TV4 gradually shifted and expanded this concept in a misleading, directly manipulative way,” he writes, among other things.
With reference to the National Encyclopedia’s definition of the term “magic factory”, Åkesson further writes that “The Sweden Democrats do not spread incorrect information and certainly not on purpose. Thus, the claim that we operate a troll factory is false. Point”.
Åkesson ends the article by writing that “The Sweden Democrats will, just like the Agency for Psychological Defense, report TV4 to the relevant authorities.”
Earlier on Friday, the Agency for Psychological Defense, MPF, announced that they had reported Kalla fakta’s review to the Review Board.
MPF believes that interviews with their employees have been used in a way that means there is a risk that viewers may interpret it as the authority making a specific statement about the review, which is not the case.
Cold facts: Very clear collage
MPF demands a correction, but it is not current according to Fredrick Malmberg, publisher responsible for Kalla fakta.
– I think it is very clear in the program that it is a collage from the social debate where the topic was up for discussion, he told SVT earlier on Friday.
– We have used clips from various programs to depict the debate that has been around troll factories and misinformation
When SVT seeks TV4 for a comment regarding Jimmie Åkesson’s debate article, they refer to previous statements.