Why Are European Governments So Terrified of 'Fake News'?

Gatestone Institute ^ | 12/2/18 | Judith Bergman

[Eleutheria5]

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How adorable that Swedish media, which has been going out of its way to conceal and beautify news about Sweden – migrant rapes and other crimes, for example -- in its news coverage, suddenly and conveniently in election season, pretends to care about whether Swedish voters can access correct information. Correct information has not exactly been a priority until now: Swedish media never reports the ethnicity of rapists, for example, thereby not only making it harder for the public to help locate the perpetrators, but also refusing to depict reality as it is. Swedish media has even covered up entire news stories in order to protect migrants: In 2015, there were widespread sexual assaults by young men, mainly from Afghanistan and Syria, at a music festival in Stockholm. One of the largest Swedish newspapers, Dagens Nyheter, once it was informed of the national origin of the criminals, did not want to report the story. The story was only finally reported -- six months after the newspaper learned about it -- because of the obvious similarity to the sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany, which had just occurred.

Granted, it is not always easy to be a journalist in Sweden: Sexual assaults had been ongoing at this Stockholm festival for years, yet the Swedish police suppressed the information. "Sometimes," according to Svt Nyheter, "[the police] consciously choose to cover up incidents where the suspects have a foreign background". According to police chief Peter Ågren, "This is a sore spot; we sometimes do not dare to say it as it is, because we think it could play into the hands of the Sweden Democrats".

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[Eleutheria5]

Is anyone surprised? Refugees may rape, but they also vote illegally.

[Gene Eric]

Islam is a war plan.

[Cowboy Bob]

The “migrants” are a way for the political class to keep the unwashed masses in check.

[pepsionice]

Generally, they all felt they existed in a world without any fake news...forever and forever. So now, they’ve come to realize that commonly accepted news-propaganda organizations also pump out fake news. Even political organizations are caught in this web.

The cherry on this cake is that the European intellectuals believe they are immune to fake news and that it’s the vastly uneducated who fall for this.

[kearnyirish2]

Our migrants are a means to keep our middle class destitute; we provide everything for them, and have to make do with what we have left.

[norwaypinesavage]

Leftists always fear the truth.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Cause they know their people will elect Trumps too if they’re exposed to the truth.