Uncovering a Sweden Democrat troll factory: 'I had to get inside to get the truth'

One of the main political talking points in Sweden at the moment is TV4’s exposé on the systematic use by the far-right Sweden Democrats of anonymous troll accounts to pump out social media posts amplifying their worldview. 

This week on Sweden in Focus Extra we’ve got an interview with Daniel Andersson, the young journalist from TV4's Kalla Fakta who went undercover for a year with the express purpose of proving the existence of a troll factory whose existence the party had previously denied.

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