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The Sweden Democrats recently were found out to have done this: https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/swedish-coalition-undermined-by-far-right-troll-

• petesergeant 2y ago
  > were found out to have done this A political party running a troll farm is not the same as the intelligence apparatus of a state being used to harass journalists.
• hagbard_c 2y ago
  The Sweden Democrats have done the same as e.g. the Social Democrats have been doing for a very long time, it is just that the regular media - which has had its focus on the Sweden Democrats for a very long time now - have thus far ignored this. This leaves the 'alternative' media which does report on such things, e.g. Samnytt [1] has a piece on how SAP (which is the full acronym for this party, it stands for 'Sveriges socialdemokratiska arbetareparti' - Sweden's social-democratic workers party, the biggest party in the country and the one which has had sole control over Sweden for most of the last century) has spent more than 5 million Swedish kronor (~$500.000) on their own 'troll factories'. Unfortunately those alternative media are just as biased as the regular media but where this is usually ignored for the latter it is used as an excuse to ignore anything published by the former - very convenient for SAP but not that good for the political discourse in Sweden. [1] https://samnytt.se/socialdemokraterna-har-satsat-over-fem-miljoner-pa-trollfabriker https://samnytt.se/socialdemokraterna-har-satsat-over-fem-mi...