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It's funny because there's rules for dealing with alleged disinformation on social media platforms, but SVT, which is literally Sweden's official state television, get to distribute this actual disinformation which directly provides rhetorical cover for ethnic cleansing.

That is, the situation represents a kind of hypocrisy-- a small thing is attacked vigorously, by an entity which does something much, much worse.

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Swedish TV is largely outside the purview of the EC; it’s Sweden’s problem to regulate. As a general rule, most EU states are broadly okay with media, including state media, lying. (I’ve no idea of the context of the incident you mention.)

It was in September, after the Karabach-Armenians agreed to the opening of Agdam road into Nagorno-Karabach, which was to be opened along with the Lachin corridor.

After letting through some small amount of supplies Azerbaijan then invaded along the Agdam road instead, putting them in a position to bombard Stepanakert with artillery, which of course, they did.

When the Karabach-Armenians then fled, SVT said that 'Armenian separatists have agreed to leave Azerbaijan', which is of course incredibly misleading.

There are institutions like Medieombudsmannen and pressens etiksråd that work with enforcing the rules of press ethics in Sweden.

Your allegations against SVT is them spreading misinformation directly, the EU is investigation how Twitter as a platform handles misinformation being spread. It’s a different thing

Please show me where on the doll Jane Josefssons questions made you uncomfortable, lol

I've shown it to you on the 'doll', haven't I? I provided an English translation of the quote from Aktuellt, where they claimed that what was in fact an ethnic cleansing that was achieved through starvation and then artillery bombardment, that was left unmentioned over the many months over which it went on, was that 'Armenian separatists have agreed to leave Azerbaijan'.

I might well report it. I have in fact considered doing so, but it remains hypocrisy to spread disinformation while accusing others of doing so.

This is also quite special, since it is in fact support for ethnic cleansing. There is nothing more heinous, when it comes to pressetik, than what SVT have done.

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