Published 20 May 2024 at 07.31
Domestic. The Sweden Democrats have no plans to change working methods after the criticism of the party's use of anonymous accounts in social media. This is announced by Jimmie Åkesson in SVT's “Agenda”.
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– Watching if you look at the content of these anonymous Tiktok pages, it's pretty harmless. It's primarily about satire and humor, says Jimmie Åkesson.
He continues:
– I don't think it's particularly controversial.
According to the SD leader, it is “purely formally” not the party that runs the debated accounts, but “individual people who are either committed to the party or work for the party”.
Jimmie Åkesson emphasizes that it is neither him nor his communications manager Joakim Wallerstein who controls the whole thing.
– It's a fairly free activity, which he calls “influencers” who sit and work with their various tracks.
– Didn't they have did, they probably would have done it in their spare time anyway. That's kind of what my point is here, says Åkesson.
After Kalla fakta's program about the SD's “troll factory”, the liberals demanded that it be illegal for parties to use anonymous accounts.
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– We are open to discussing an approach with other parties. Then I have a hard time seeing how to implement that proposal in practice. Should it then apply to everyone who has a connection to a political party and is on social media, says Jimmie Åkesson in Agenda.
– That will still be the conclusion of the proposal. I find it very difficult to see that it can be implemented, if it is even desirable to implement it.