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Fria Tider (Free Times) is a Swedish-language right-wing populist news site.[1] Oxford University's Internet Institute's Project on Computational Propaganda identified "Fria Tider" as one of the three primary "junk news" sources in Sweden.[2][3] Analysis by Swedish Defence University lists Fria Tider as having the highest proportion of disinformation among Swedish sources.[4]
Fria Tider actively promotes Kremlin narratives[5] and content by Sputnik,[6][7][8] a Russian propaganda outlet.[18]
Fria Tider is known to promote views in favor or Russian invasion of Crimea and Russian war against Ukraine. Granskning Sverige, a network connected to Fria Tider is on European Union's list of disinformation sources.[19]
Research by Swedish Defence Research Agency concluded that news by Fria Tider are much more frequently shared by Twitter bots, compared to news from other sources.[20] An analysis of 12 million online links made by The New York Times concluded that a lot of Fria Tider's traffic is generated by non-Swedish sites.[21]
^Jack Stubbs, Johan Ahlander (2018-09-06). "Exclusive: Right-wing sites swamp Sweden with 'junk news' in tight election race". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2024-06-30. Retrieved 2024-06-30. The top three "junk news" sources identified by the study - right-wing websites Samhallsnytt, Nyheter Idag and Fria Tider - accounted for more than 85 percent of the "junk news" content.
^Becker, Jo (2019-08-10). "The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2019-08-10. Retrieved 2024-07-09. Fria Tider is considered not only one of the most extreme sites, but also among the most Kremlin-friendly. It frequently swaps material with the Russian propaganda outlet Sputnik.
^"Banden stärks mellan svenska högerextremister och Putins maskineri (Från 2017)". Svenska Yle (in Swedish). 2017-06-19. Archived from the original on 2023-11-10. Retrieved 2024-07-18. Av Kraghs och Åsbergs undersökta period kommer det fram att Fria Tider ofta spred vidare det innehåll som Sputnik News producerade på svenska, och vice versa.(transl. During the period examined by Kragh and Åsberg, Fria Tider often distributed content produced by Sputnik News, and vice versa.)
^Karlsen, Geir Hågen (5 August 2016). "Tools of Russian Influence: Information and Propaganda". In Matláry, Janne Haaland; Heier, Tormod (eds.). Ukraine and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 199. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-32530-9_9. ISBN978-3-319-32530-9. Archived from the original on 7 April 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2022 – via Google Books. The propaganda apparatus proper consists of four means: media, social media, political communication and diplomacy, and covert active measures, all tied together in a coordinated manner. The main international media channel is the RT broadcaster and website, formerly known as Russia Today. It is complemented by Sputnik radio and website, news and video agencies, and the Russia Beyond the Headlines news supplement, making up a news conglomerate operating in almost 40 languages.
^Ižak, Štefan (January 2019). "(Ab)using the topic of migration by pro-Kremlin propaganda: Case study of Slovakia"(PDF). Journal of Comparative Politics. 12 (1). University of Economics in Bratislava / University of Ljubljana / Alma Mater Europaea: 58. ISSN1338-1385. Archived(PDF) from the original on 1 March 2022. Retrieved 28 February 2022. Almost all important media in Russia are state controlled and used to feed Russian audience with Kremlin propaganda. For international propaganda Kremlin uses agencies like RT and Sputnik. Both are available in many language variations and in many countries (Hansen 2017). Aim of this propaganda is to exploit weak spots and controversial topics (in our case migration to the EU) and use them to harm integrity of the West (Pomerantsev and Weiss 2014).
^Golovchenko, Yevgeniy (11 December 2020). "Measuring the scope of pro-Kremlin disinformation on Twitter". Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 7 (1). Springer Nature: 1–11. doi:10.1057/s41599-020-00659-9. ISSN2662-9992. When it comes to overt reach, the Russian government openly funds English-speaking outlets, such as Sputnik News and RT. These outlets serve as a frequent source of pro-Kremlin disinformation both according to scholars, fact-checkers and Western authorities (BBC, 2019; Elliot, 2019; Thornton, 2015).
^Fletcher, Richard; Cornia, Alessio; Graves, Lucas; Nielsen, Rasmus Kleis (1 January 2018). "Measuring the reach of "fake news" and online disinformation in Europe"(PDF). Australasian Policing. 10 (2). Archived(PDF) from the original on 25 February 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2022 – via Mediterraneo Cronaca. For comparative purposes, we also included two prominent Russian news sites which have featured in European policy discussions around disinformation, namely Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik. These Russian state-backed organisations are clearly different from sites that engage in for-profit fabrication of false news, but both independent fact-checkers and the EU's European External Action Service East Stratcom Task Force have identified multiple instances where these sites have published disinformation.
^"Det finns med på EU:s lista över rysk desinformation". SVT Nyheter (in Swedish). 2017-03-14. Archived from the original on 2024-06-30. Retrieved 2024-06-30. Nätverket är kopplat till den högerextrema sajten Fria Tider, och bådas sajter lyfer fram debattörer som tar ställning för Ryssland efter ockupationen av Krim och det ryskstödda inbördeskriget i Ukraina, enligt Eskilstuna-Kurirens granskning.
^"Botar och det svenska valet". FOI, Swedish Defence Research Agency. 2024-04-05. Archived from the original on 2024-06-30. Retrieved 2024-06-30. I vår analys av vilka domäner kontona oftast länkar till observerar vi att botar länkar mer till Samhällsnytt och Fria Tider än vad genuina konton gör.
^Delkic, Melina (2019-08-12). "Russian Explosion, Jeffrey Epstein, Uighurs: Your Monday Briefing". nytimes.com. Archived from the original on 2022-11-27. Retrieved 2024-07-18. By the numbers: The Times analyzed more than 12 million available links from over 18,000 domains to four prominent far-right sites — Nyheter Idag, Samhallsnytt, Fria Tider and Nya Tider. While most of the links came from Swedish-language sites, the analysis turned up a surprising number of links from well-trafficked foreign-language sites — which suggests that the Swedish sites' rapid growth has been driven to a significant degree from abroad.
