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Sweden views itself as a moral and progressive superpower, but an anti-immigration backlash has allowed right-wing populism to take hold. Aiding the rise in far-right, national sentiment: a global disinformation machine. nyti.ms/31AXhBr
We examined the content, personnel and traffic of Sweden’s increasingly popular far-right media sites. An analysis of millions of links over the last 6 years illustrates how foreign state and non-state actors cultivated, indirectly subsidized and gave them viral momentum. 
Widely shared on Facebook, the increasingly popular far-right websites pumped anti-immigrant and Islamophobic stories into the Swedish political bloodstream. In last year's election, the Sweden Democrats, a party with neo-Nazi roots, captured nearly 18% of the vote in parliament.
The Sweden Democrats, once shunned for their neo-Nazi roots, are now welcome in President Trump’s Washington. Last winter, senior officials were even feted at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. nyti.ms/31AYaKh
