Fake Sweden expert on Fox News – no connection to Swedish security

118 点作者 adamwi大约 8 年前

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rodionos大约 8 年前

Let's look at raw statistics for a second. The data comes from the Swedish crime agency bra.se: <a href="https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statistics/crime-statistics.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.bra.se/bra/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-statist...</a>1) Total numbers of offenses. Rape statistics chart is displayed below:<a href="https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/013dc374/1/#fullscreen" rel="nofollow">https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/013dc374/1/#fullscreen</a>2) Population pro-rated:<a href="https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/013dc374/3/#fullscreen" rel="nofollow">https://apps.axibase.com/chartlab/013dc374/3/#fullscreen</a>What happened in 2002-2004? As was discussed in media, the Swedish authorities have encouraged reporting of sex offenses and changed the methodology of how rape crime is reported and counted.One of the unintended side effects is that it's difficult to compare the time series, and this is one of the challenges that all statistical agencies are facing. If you change the definition, be prepared for misunderstanding and misreporting - both intentional and not.By the way, the country where Julian Assange is alleged of a sex assault is ... Sweden.

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znfi大约 8 年前

In what way is the term "defense and national security advisor" used in the US? Does this necessitate being an advisor to the military or the ministry for foreign affairs?Because this article to me, as a swede, seems to contain very little substance, and given that DN for no apparent reasons lists this guys whole criminal records makes you wonder what the purpose really is here. For comparison I'm not aware of ever having seen this detailed of a listing of someone's criminal record. There is no mention of any inaccuracies in what this person has said, only that the title chosen by Fox News is incorrect.It's also somewhat ironic that they quote Nils Bildt as complaining of the way media behave, when this whole article, and publication of his criminal record in particular, in many ways seems like a way to "punish" him for criticizing the politically correct image championed by the media over here.Finally, it might be worth pointing out that the surname Bildt is in Sweden strongly associated with the politician Carl Bildt, former prime minister of Sweden and former minister for foreign affairs.

spiderfarmer大约 8 年前

Things like this makes me worried about the future of the USA. How can a country succeed in the future if they reject reality? I know Fox News is not representative of all US media, but even the president admits that his worldview is based on whatever the news editor cooks up that day.

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willvarfar大约 8 年前

I don't get why the Right is so keen to vilify Sweden.I've lived abroad and travelled and feel I have a fair handle on all the countries I've visited and I'm living abroad now.. In Sweden! Nordic countries are by far the best functioning countries I've ever visited and should serve as positive examples.

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dep_b大约 8 年前

It's a bit weird that a country safer than the US now gets portrayed as a sodom and gomorra of rape and violence. The striking difference between Swedes and immigrants in terms of violent crimes (four times as much, five times for rape) is declared for a large part by the fact that Swedes on average are nice and peaceful people.Fox and Trump blowing everything out of proportion shouldn't stop a healthy debate about what the benefits of the current wave of immigration for Sweden and the Swedes really are.

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kevinbowman大约 8 年前

I'm interested in how this is being reported on in the USA - is there a discussion about the complete fabrication of this story, or is the story itself successfully doing the rounds? It seems amazing that manipulation of the public on such a massive scale is even possible in somewhere like the USA, if that's what is happening.

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spiderfarmer大约 8 年前

When an immigrant politician in The Netherlands made up a "fact" about Dutch doctors pulling the plug on immigrants patients sooner because of racism / a language barrier, he was asked by all journalists why he would use an unsubstantiated rumor in his campaign and how he thought that using something like that was ethical. When I saw that I was proud to be a citizen of this country, even though we have our own Trump wannabe with even tinier hands: Geert Wilders.

hacker_9大约 8 年前

Utterly embarrassing, but not unexpected. News in the US exists in a different reality compared to other countries. If the BBC did this it would be such an utter shock it would probably make the newspapers. But in the US? Business as usual.

xname2大约 8 年前

So many comments here imply that there is no immigration problem whatsoever in Sweden. It's all Trump/right-win made-up. But it is not true:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/world/europe/sweden-nation-of-open-arms-debates-implications-of-immigration.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/world/europe/sweden-natio...</a>Sweden, Nation of Open Arms, Debates Implications of Immigration"In 2014, the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats gained 12.9 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections to become the country’s third-largest party, up from only 2.9 percent eight years earlier."

Melchizedek大约 8 年前

Nevertheless, what he said was completely correct."National security advisor" in an American context is apparently not just someone who gives advise on national security, but a specific high ranking post. Nils Bildt however is an independent analyst from Sweden who is based in the US. If the Swedish government considers him an "expert" or not seems irrelevant.While the presentation of who he is was misleading, it doesn't seem like a huge conspiracy and could simply be a mistake. The reaction to it looks like a case of killing the messenger when you don't like the message.

byrnedo大约 8 年前

Murders / 100k people in Sweden: 4. Chicago has 27.

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xorcist大约 8 年前

The family name Bildt is an old noble one with registered heraldry and absolutely not a surname you can take in Sweden. It's also the surname of the prime minister at the time Nils emigrated. Perhaps that's a bit of background to who puts on such a charade.

ptype大约 8 年前

Ironically coming from DN, who under current editor Wolodarski has lost a huge amount of credibility among Swedish intellectuals. What used to be the premier journalistic publication of Sweden now runs a highly biased agenda, and has been involved in a number of journalistic scandals (cover ups etc).