The article identifies a discrepancy between how #Flashback justifies minimal #moderation and how users had imagined the platform operating. It also discusses how Flashback maintains these #policies through its #community’s active encouragement via supportive posting and silencing of non-conformers, and the consequences that Flashback’s inaction has in terms of residual #hate.

@thestrainingstudent that makes me so happy! Thank you!

The texts scaremonger about Muslims. The paper discusses how such framing helps the international far right form a coherent narrative and all-applicable template for the problems of 'Muslims' facing the West. Finally, the analysis showed how Sweden is positioned in a complex juxtaposition: as something both good and bad; superior while also inferior; a great #nationalist role model but also a warning example, and how Swedish #whiteness plays a central role in these depictions.

It focused specifically on when Sweden is discussed by the US far right and in relation to what events, and what values and associations are attributed to Sweden. The analysis showed that news events were not reported on by US far-right organisations as they took place in Sweden but instead appropriated and accentuated when they could be used to make certain points directed at the audiences of these organisations.