The authority for psychological protection (MPF) has notified TV4 Kalla fakta’s SD assessment to the Assessment Board. “I am stunned,” says TV4’s Fredrick Malmberg. MPF refuses to reply the Journalist’s questions.
On Thursday, the Psychological Protection Company notified TV4’s Chilly Details programme Undercover within the troll manufacturing unit to the Assessment Board for Radio and Tv (GRN).
The report considerations two collages that illustrate the Swedish debate round disinformation, propaganda and troll accounts. The collage consists of quick clips the place completely different folks describe the issues with misinformation in Swedish society. Two of MPF’s staff, Andrea Liebman and Mikael Tofvesson, seem with a complete of three quotes that they made in numerous contexts regarding improper informational affect directed at Sweden from a international energy.
Within the notification, MPF’s director normal Magnus Hjort writes that the interviews that Kalla fakta used don’t relate to situations and expressions inside the Swedish data atmosphere and considers that there’s motive to worry that many viewers who’ve seen this system assume that their statements have been made “in interviews associated to Kalla fakta’s examination”.
That is how director normal Magnus Hjort writes within the report:
“MPF considers that TV4’s motion to intentionally use recorded materials from different events, an motion that misleads viewers into believing that the authority would have commented on the assessment Chilly info presents, is, to say the least, exceptional, inappropriate and in clear violation of present media ethics. Particularly because the intention appears to be that the statements ought to validate the assessment carried out.”
In social media, MPF’s report is used as proof for the declare that TV4 has unfold misinformation.
Fredrick Malmberg, writer answerable for TV4’s Kalla fakta, finds it obscure why the authority has made a report.
– IM suprised. I feel it is rather clear that it’s a collage the place we depict the way it has sounded prior to now within the Swedish debate on disinformation. We needed to place the topic in context, says Fredrick Malmberg.
MPF writes within the report that they “don’t choose what actors specific within the Swedish data atmosphere as a result of it’s protected by the Freedom of Expression Act”, on the similar time that they’re now making judgments about TV4’s assessment as “unfair, deceptive and opposite to present media ethics”. What do you consider it?
– I wish to level out that the report shouldn’t be about what emerges in our assessment, however solely about how the clips have been utilized in collagen. There are not any claims in MPF’s notification that there can be any inaccuracies. You’ll be able to ask them how the authority acts.
The journalist has contacted MPF’s director normal Magnus Hjort through his secretary, and has referred to as and emailed inquiries to MPF’s press division. The press division proclaims that the authority won’t make any feedback until the authority’s place is obvious from the notification to GRN.
Listed below are the questions the journalist desires solutions to from MPF director normal Magnus Hjort:
Along with MPF, 22 personal people have reported TV4’s SD assessment to the Assessment Board.