▸ Freelance journalist and activist Mathias Wåg has covered far-right environments for many years and was one of the targets when Nazis attacked a political meeting in Gubbängen last week. It is not the first time Mathias has been attacked by the far right, but in recent years the violence has changed. Beating and destroying just to film has become an important part of the far right’s own marketing strategy. Mathias is a guest in this week’s Café Bambino to talk about propaganda violence, where the content is spread and who it is for. Like all content we consume, Nazi content has been pared down, from Anders Behring Breivik’s 1,000-page manifesto to short clips lasting just a few seconds, with the intention of engaging. Karin remembers back to a time when Hasse Alfredsson and Astrid Lindgren paid the climate activists’ fines and Tone unfortunately has to admit that she once accidentally shared TikToks from a Nazi. Why does the left have no violence influencers or alternative media? Are the Sweden Democrats organizational geniuses or have they been helped by the internet? And what happened to all the money that came to the Swedish far-right milieu in the 90s when we were the world’s biggest producer of nationalist rock, or whatever the hell the Ultima Thule genre is now called.
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Far-right influencers commit terrorist crimes as a PR strategy
