Seeing lots of RW tweets tonight about "riots in Sweden"/"Stockholm in flames"/"Trump was right!"

[highplainsdem]

No idea how much of this is from Russian bots, but I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of it was.

There was a fairly small-scale disturbance tonight in Rinkeby, a mostly-immigrant neighborhood of Stockholm. It started with youths throwing rocks at police, then several cars were set on fire, and there was some looting.

Obviously not good news, but this is hardly the large-scale rioting many of these propaganda tweets are suggesting. A number of them are posting photos and stories about riots that happened years ago, with nothing in the tweet itself to divulge that the images and old stories aren't about what's happening now.

This is a Google-translated page about what happened tonight:

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.expressen.se%2Fnyheter%2Fpolis-skot-varningsskott-mot-stenkastare%2F&edit-text=&act=url


Btw, re what Trump has said about Sweden... John Schindler posted this tweet this morning:

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Question: Who wants to destabilize Sweden, a geo-strategically critical Baltic state, while feeding Europe's far-right over migrant-panic?

Donald Trump

Vladimir Putin

Both

[kimbutgar]

1. Who's to say they weren't started by Russian agent provocateurs?

Really coincidentual the timing, just saying.

[highplainsdem]

4. That's a definite possibility.

[applegrove]

2. Sweedish Alt righters playing off Trump's words in the 'organic way' the

Internet is so good at?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Sweden has national elections in 2018. . . . nt

[Pachamama]

5. Oh please post the links of these reports because I will have such fun forwarding them to my friends

...in Sweden for some good laughs and humor....

Been having lots of funny texts back and forth with my Swedish friends...

[highplainsdem]

7. Here's one that's getting a lot of retweets:

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Images from Sweden as muslim refugees burn Stockholm to the ground. No coverage from Swedish media out of fear of racism. #SwedenIncident

[VOX]

9. "...as muslim refugees burn Stockholm to the ground..."

What a steaming pile of horseshit.

[highplainsdem]

11. One of the "Trump was right" tweets being copied with slight variations, probably bots

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If you look at the article linked to there, you'll see the very biased "journalist" described Stockholm as a war zone, then said that RAIN slowed down the "assault" -- and he apparently had no idea that any assault slowed by rain doesn't sound like much of a war.

[highplainsdem]

13. Tweets from Infowars contributor/editor Paul Joseph Watson about "huge riots":

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[Doodley]

6. Makes the replies look so dumb, seeing as Trump was talking about one particular night when nothing

happened.

[Fred Sanders]

8. Another manufactured hate speech story from fake news Fox...from their hate factory to T.'s ears.

When will the MSM cast aside their timidness and do right by the nation...expose Fox for what they are, hate mongers, liars and a cancer on the nation?

[lunasun]

10. Trump did it for the US too. Remember he said our inner cities were on fire during one speech

[VOX]

12. Little orange fingers are already twitching for a 3:00AM tweet...

"I TOLD YOU SO! DID I CALL IT OR WHAT? I'M BETTER THAN FAKE NEWS! Sad!"

Count on it.

[yuiyoshida]

14. OMFG!!!

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