Thread by @DavidSteadson

Wow. Talk about propaganda.

Sweden's leading newspaper, @dagensnyheter, booked an interview with a Swede living in New Zealand. After she old them she supported the NZ strategy, they cancelled the interview, instead going with an "anti-lockdown" Swede.

https://twitter.com/WicMar/status/1434057711734255624

They failed to even report that nearly 9 in 10 New Zealanders support their Zero Covid approach, and only added some other Swedess in NZ views after many of them wrote to protest.

Perspective -

Sweden 14692* reported Covid-19 deaths
New Zealand 27 reported Covid-19 deaths

* Sweden has not reported any new Covid deaths since Tuesday due to a "system update"

@dagensnyheter "told" not "old" obviously

This propaganda - this *gaslighting* is ubiquitous throughout Swedish media. Look at this graph of vaccine uptake from another major outlet, Svenska Dagbladet today. (@svd)

First, notice Norway. 60.2% ... but they mark it as *less than half* of the pie chart.

But that's not the worst of it. The Swedish figure is the % of *adults* vaccinate. For every other country they take the % of *the whole population*.

We have corrected Swedish media outlets about this 'again* and *again* and *again*. They keep doing it.

And this week, multiple outlets reported on a Lancet study *that had nothing to do with vaccine efficiency* claiming it said your risk of getting infected post-vaccine was just 0.2%!

https://twitter.com/DavidSteadson/status/1433408226939260932?s=20

@srventenskap deleted that tweet, again after we corrected them. At least two other Swedish outlets reported the same thing. @SVD has also deleted the graph, after getting correct.

Another media "trick" in Sweden has been to regularly cite "experts" like Professor Ali Mirazimi - while failing to mention they are employed by the Swedish Public Health Authority. Despite pledging 5 months ago to stop doing this - they keep doing it.

emanuelkarlsten.se/vaccinexperten…

There's also the infamous @svtnyheter graphs, where they just keep extending the Y-axis, minimising the Swedish data.

https://twitter.com/janerle2002/status/1351613927998836737?s=20

Or cherry-picking another country doing worse to put on the graph, so making Sweden look better in comparison.

https://twitter.com/DavidSteadson/status/1381709323622043650?s=20

There's been so many cases of this throughout the pandemic, across virtually all of the mainstream Swedish media, that it's hard to believe it's not deliberate. Other Swedish residents I'm sure can post more examples!