Fri Jan 7, 2022 – 2:18 pm EST
KARLSTAD, Sweden (LifeSiteNews) – The Swedish government has established a new agency for the purpose of dispelling what they consider to be “misinformation,” apparently to help strengthen the Swedish population’s psychological “resilience” against “vulnerabilities in society.”
Known as the Swedish Psychological Defense Agency, the department was launched on January 1 with the former Swedish ambassador to Abu Dhabi, Henrik Landerholm, appointed as its Director General. The apparent mission of the agency is “the coordination and development of agencies’ and other actors’ activities within Sweden’s psychological defence,” the purpose of which is to “safeguard our open and democratic society, the free formation of opinion and Sweden’s freedom and independence.”
The establishment of the agency comes, according to an information page on its new website, in response to “undue information influence and other misleading information that is directed at Sweden or Swedish interests both nationally and internationally.” It is the express task of the agency to “identify, analyse, and prevent” such influences from supposedly misleading the Swedish public.
The new agency, part of Sweden’s Ministry of Justice, warned that what it deems “misleading information” can be a cause of “anxiety,
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