The Egyptian blogger Mustafa Al-Sharqawi and his YouTube channel Shuon Islamiya (Muslim Affairs) and other Arabic-language channels have repeatedly been singled out as driving the disinformation campaign against social services.

But claims about "kidnapped children" have become increasingly common in Swedish channels during the autumn.

Spreading movement

Recently, SVT Nyheter was able to tell that the rhetoric has been turned up, among other things on Swedish Tiktok accounts.

There is also information about acts of violence, including in a video where attacks on social services are mentioned.

The Social Administration Nordost in Gothenburg, which filed a police report after SVT's publication, describes the calls as "threats to democracy".

- Regarding Tiktok, we have seen an increase now.

It's not bots doing this, it's people reacting hatefully.

They become active and organized by this misinformation, says Mikael Tolfvesson, head of the Agency for Psychological Defense.

SVT Nyheter has mapped the Swedish network behind the campaign that is carried out in social media.

It is a widespread movement with everything from parents fighting to get back their children in care - to significantly more extreme voices and ideologically driven actors who want to undermine trust in society.

"Ideological contradictions meet"

The people who set the tone participate in each other's live broadcasts in social media and thus contribute to increasing each other's impact and credibility.

Several of them also meet outside the online community.

Hannah Pollack-Sarnecki is a researcher at the Total Defense Research Institute (FOI), primarily in the field of violent extremism.

- Extremist groups that come from different directions ideologically and are in many ways each other's ideological opponents also have certain issues on which they meet. One such issue concerns the family and the role of the family, says Hannah Pollack-Sarnecki.

- Another such question concerns the perception that the state or the liberal state is one's enemy.

Here, those things coincide and we see that despite ideological contradictions, groups meet around these issues in certain contexts.