Samhällsnytt

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Samhällsnytt
Samnytt logo.png
Type of site
News website
Available inSwedish
EditorMats Dagerlind
URL samnytt.se
Launched30 August 2017

Samhällsnytt (Society News) or Samnytt [1] is a Swedish right-wing populist [2] [3] online news website founded in 2017. Oxford University's Internet Institute's Project on Computational Propaganda identified Samhällsnytt as one of the three primary "junk news" sources in Sweden, alongside Nyheter Idag and Fria Tider . [4] [5] [6]

Contents

History and activities

The site and its predecessors is said to have made an impact due to their "relentless reporting on immigrant crime". [1] Samhällsnytt is the successor to the news website Avpixlat ("De-pixelated"), [1] [7] [8] also closely linked to Kent Ekeroth. [9] [10] Avpixlat was labeled a racist hate-site, xenophobic and right-wing extremist by Swedish and international media, [11] [12] while describing itself as "an independent Sweden-friendly website for news and opinions". [13] The site leaned close to the counter-jihad movement and supported Israel. [14] Avpixlat was itself the successor to the news site Politiskt Inkorrekt ("Politically Incorrect"), [1] [15] founded in 2008, [16] which also had close ties to Ekeroth [17] and the counter-jihad movement. [18]

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