Swedish conservative party the Moderates have asked one of their most high-profile MPs to give up some of his parliamentary posts after accusing him of repeatedly overstepping the line on Twitter.
Sweden's official Twitter project 'Curators of Sweden', which lets ordinary Swedes tweet from its account, will come to an end this month – after almost seven years of grabbing global headlines.
Politically-motivated automated Twitter accounts have been increasingly active in the run-up to Sweden’s September 9th election, with most bot accounts spreading nationalist and anti-immigration messages.
US tech giant Facebook will not attend a planned meeting with Swedish government ministers and other media in which measures to remove illegal content, threats and harassment from digital platforms will be discussed, Sweden's Justice Department says.
A major Stockholm tech event's automated Twitter bot account may have surprised followers when it inadvertently retweeted neo-Nazi propaganda on Tuesday.
The government agency behind Sweden's official Twitter account chose to keep an extensive list of users blocked by a previous curator of @sweden. But the move stirred public outrage, and all 14,000 users were unblocked the next day.
Helsingborg in southern Sweden is set to become the home of a museum dedicated to some of the biggest flop products of all time, including the Betamax player, the Harley Davidson perfume and an ill-advised "female" pen.
Stockholm University's English-language Twitter account posted a swastika and a message in Turkish after it was one of several targeted in a cyber attack.
It’s thought that the Vikings first arrived in Canada about 1000 years ago <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/20160921/watch-this-nordic-viking-ship-sail-into-new-york-sweden-norway" target="_blank">when Leif Eriksson went ashore in Newfoundland</a>, and the North American country has sparked another Nordic epic of the modern kind this week, when Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway squared off in a Twitter war.
A former Social Democrat MP and one of the party's most outspoken feminist and anti-racist campaigners on Tuesday said 'lies and hate' had prompted her to take a break from Twitter.
The organizers of Sweden's official Twitter account have revealed that its curators have received an increased amount of racist and sexist abuse in recent months, with the closure of the account as a result a possible outcome should the pattern continue.
Sweden's Carl Bildt, who last year was ranked as the world's best connected foreign minister on Twitter, lost his crown on Wednesday to France's Laurent Fabius, a study revealed.
The Local's Oliver Gee joins Sweden's first social media police on the beat to find out why they've embraced Twitter, how their tweets have saved lives, and how their online habits have exposed the secret life of Swedish police.
Stockholm police officers caused a stir on Monday after they used their official Twitter account to tweet about a police incident that involved screaming, blood, and make-up sex.
A prosecutor has launched an investigation after a man in Sweden took to social networking site Twitter to express his happiness that a five-year-old girl from Somalia had been found dead in Sweden.
A perky Swedish schoolgirl with a wry sense of humour has suddenly found herself with thousands of fans fascinated with details of her fictional crush on Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, making her our pick for Swede of the Week.
The Swedish foreign minister has clashed on Twitter with Egypt's ambassador to Sweden, after the diplomat said Carl Bildt did not seem to understand the recent spate of violence in Cairo and that Swedish police also shoot innocents.
Twitter users in Sweden have leapt to an entertaining defence of their country after @WikiLeaks accused the @Sweden curator of being a military mouthpiece - after he labelled them "mad tinfoil hatters" .
