Samhällsnytt

Samhällsnytt (Society News) or Samnytt is a Swedish right-wing populist online news website founded in 2017. Oxford University's Internet Institute's Project on Computational Propaganda identified "Samhällsnytt" as one of the three primary "junk news" sources in Sweden.

History and activities
The site and its predecessors is said to have made an impact due to their "relentless reporting on immigrant crime". Samhällsnytt is the successor to the news website Avpixlat ("De-pixelated"),  also closely linked to Ekeroth. Avpixlat was labeled a racist hate-site, xenophobic and right-wing extremist by Swedish and international media, while describing itself as "an independent Sweden-friendly website for news and opinions". The site leaned close to the counter-jihad movement and supported Israel. Avpixlat was itself the successor to the news site Politiskt Inkorrekt ("Politically Incorrect"), founded in 2008, which also had close ties to Ekeroth and the counter-jihad movement.

Legal issues

 * In October 2021, the editor of the website Mats Dagerlind was sentenced to 40 daily fines, 30,000 kr in damages and 115,000 kr in legal fees for libel against a journalist at Dagens Nyheter. The conviction concerned Mr. Dagerlind describing the journalist of Syrian descent as a "suspected jihadist" with ties to the al-Nusra Front and al-Qaeda.
 * In February 2024, Mr. Dagerlind was again convicted for two counts of libel and one count of aggravated libel, for a series of articles that accused a person of being reprehensible and criminal. He was sentenced to one month in prison and 20,000 kr in damages.
 * Samhällsnytt has also been sued multiple times for libel and theft of copyrighted material.
 * At least one writer for Samhallsnytt was denied parliamentary press accreditation due to links to Russian intelligence services.
 * Samhällsnytt has been routinelly criticised for unethical publications by Mediernas Etiknämnd.