In December 2019, Igeman announced that one of his Facebook posts was attacked by opponents of the spread of 5G networks in Sweden. Then the minister considered that “Russian trolls” were behind this.
According to the Foreign Ministry, now the Swedish TV channel SVT Nyheter conducted an investigation, during which it became clear that the traces of the "attack" lead to "an ordinary Swedish grandmother who is afraid of radiation from Wi-Fi and 5G networks."
To the publication on Facebook, the ministry attached a photograph of the shaking hands of Igeman with the caption "When it turned out that the" attack of the Russian trolls "was actually carried out by a local group of people in foil caps."
The TV channel indicates that it studied the comments under the ministerial post and concluded that they were made by people, most of whom belonged to the community to combat the development of 5G networks, founded by 64-year-old activist Katarina Hollbrink, who urged like-minded people to comment on the cabinet member.
On December 31, the Russian embassy in Sweden also responded to the minister’s words, congratulating him on the New Year and expressing surprise that “Igeman is so popular in Russia.”
In January 2019, one of the oldest American universities, Georgetown University, announced the introduction of a course called “Russian Hybrid War,” which includes studying the work of “trolls and bots.”
In November of that year, the State Department announced that they saw signs of interference by "Russian trolls" in protests in Chile.