A defense agency that is set to operate under the title of Sweden Psychological Defense Agency has been commissioned and launched to counter the spread of misinformation. The distribution of such misinformation has been credited with disruption and misleading of society.
The Swedish administration recently created a new organization to combat "misinformation," ostensibly to help increase the Swedish population's psychological "resilience" in the face of "vulnerabilities in society."
The Swedish Psychological Defense Agency, or SPDA, was established on January 1 with Henrik Landerholm, a former Swedish ambassador to Abu Dhabi, as its Director General. The agency's stated objective is “the coordination and development of agencies’ and other actors’ activities within Sweden’s psychological defence,” with the goal of “safeguard our open and democratic society, the free formation of opinion and Sweden’s freedom and independence.”
According to an informative section on the...
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