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Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Online newspaper |
Editor-in-chief | Widar Nord |
Founded | 2009 |
Language | Swedish |
Headquarters | Tallinn |
Country | Sweden |
Website | friatider.se |
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Fria Tider (Free Times) is a Swedish-language online newspaper. It is independent and describes itself as libertarian conservative.[1]
Oxford University's Internet Institute's Project on Computational Propaganda identified "Fria Tider" as one of the three primary "junk news" sources in Sweden.[2][3] Analysis by Swedish Defence University lists Fria Tider as having the highest proportion of disinformation among Swedish sources.[4]
Fria Tider actively promotes Kremlin narratives[5] and content by Sputnik[6], a Russian propaganda outlet.[16] Fria Tider is known to promote views in favor or Russian invasion of Crimea and Russian war against Ukraine. Granskning Sverige, a network connected to Fria Tider is on European Union's list of disinformation sources.[17]
Research by Swedish Defence Research Agency concluded that news by Fria Tider are much more frequently shared by Twitter bots, compared to news from other sources.[18]
Sedan dess har nya nätsidor, som Avpixlat och Fria tider, ofta med stark anknytning till Sverigedemokraterna, samt organiserade kampanjer i dagstidningarnas kommentarsfält hjälpt till att förskjuta diskussionsklimatet i en riktning som föranlett krav på lagändringar
The top three "junk news" sources identified by the study - right-wing websites Samhallsnytt, Nyheter Idag and Fria Tider - accounted for more than 85 percent of the "junk news" content.
The most frequently shared junk news sites — Samhällsnytt, Nyheteridag, and Fria Tider — accounted for 86% of all junk news shares.
Some of the online news magazines most popular with the far-right, such as Nya Dagbaldet and Fria Tider, promote narratives that are in line with the Kremlin agenda
The web-based platform Fria Tider, with organisational ties to the identitarian movement, actively promoted Swedish Sputnik content in 2015.
The emphasis on disorientation appears in the literature on modern Russian propaganda, both in inward-focused applications and in its international propaganda outlets, Sputnik and RT (formerly, Russia Today). Here, the purpose is not to convince the audience of any particular truth but instead to make it impossible for people in the society subject to the propagandist's intervention to tell truth from non-truth.
The propaganda apparatus proper consists of four means: media, social media, political communication and diplomacy, and covert active measures, all tied together in a coordinated manner. The main international media channel is the RT broadcaster and website, formerly known as Russia Today. It is complemented by Sputnik radio and website, news and video agencies, and the Russia Beyond the Headlines news supplement, making up a news conglomerate operating in almost 40 languages.
Almost all important media in Russia are state controlled and used to feed Russian audience with Kremlin propaganda. For international propaganda Kremlin uses agencies like RT and Sputnik. Both are available in many language variations and in many countries (Hansen 2017). Aim of this propaganda is to exploit weak spots and controversial topics (in our case migration to the EU) and use them to harm integrity of the West (Pomerantsev and Weiss 2014).
When it comes to overt reach, the Russian government openly funds English-speaking outlets, such as Sputnik News and RT. These outlets serve as a frequent source of pro-Kremlin disinformation both according to scholars, fact-checkers and Western authorities (BBC, 2019; Elliot, 2019; Thornton, 2015).
For comparative purposes, we also included two prominent Russian news sites which have featured in European policy discussions around disinformation, namely Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik. These Russian state-backed organisations are clearly different from sites that engage in for-profit fabrication of false news, but both independent fact-checkers and the EU's European External Action Service East Stratcom Task Force have identified multiple instances where these sites have published disinformation.
Nätverket är kopplat till den högerextrema sajten Fria Tider, och bådas sajter lyfer fram debattörer som tar ställning för Ryssland efter ockupationen av Krim och det ryskstödda inbördeskriget i Ukraina, enligt Eskilstuna-Kurirens granskning.
I vår analys av vilka domäner kontona oftast länkar till observerar vi att botar länkar mer till Samhällsnytt och Fria Tider än vad genuina konton gör.
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