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this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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Because more militant left leaning views are pretty common here. Seems to be the Occam's Razor answer.
To what end? Surely locals would have a better idea of exactly where their politics stand... what's the point in giving a false impression to people from random countries on the Internet?
So people are mostly driven of "what is popular", so if you spam the article and astroturf them. You give the illusion that it is a big problem that a lot of people care about. And that leads to people taking it more seriously.
So the end here is to make people who would leave the left-party (Vänsterpartiet) to vote for ÖP, feel alienated. "Oh my god, I can't vote for a far right party! I better vote for the 'only' left party that is left." is the thought they want them to have.
I guess I'm just skeptical this false impression will work on locals... I'd presume they aren't hearing from this group from lemmy mainly and likely already have feelings established, no? It just seems to me this wouldn't be a good forum on which to spread misinformation... strikes me as a lot more likely that a forum known for being pretty left leaning is just latching onto a story that is related to their interest.
Well you can check the comments, and their mastodon page. It works.
The second aspect is that they want to hurt Mullvad as a deterent for other to donate to ÖP, I think that is why they go extra hard on mastodon and lemmy. Because a lot of people who would be interested in Mullvads products would be here.