64 year-old granny leads revolt against FiveGee in Sweden
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So here's such a great story about a Minister in Sweden blaming "Fake News" postings about Five Gee on Russian Trolls, when in actual fact, it was a 64 year old Granny leading protest about it!...
Sweden’s digitization minister blamed a flurry of anti-FiveGee comments on the usual suspect – “Russian trolls” – but a closer look revealed that a local granny opposed to wireless radiation was behind the campaign.The controversy dates back to late-December 2019, when Anders Ygeman, the Swedish energy and digital development minister, lamented that he had fallen victim to some “Russian trolls.” Who else could flood his Facebook page with hundreds of comments demanding that he backpedal on the introduction of FiveGee networks in Sweden?
“There is a Russian political interest in disrupting and hindering other countries’ development of FiveGee,” Ygeman told the Swedish press at the time. He also insisted that one of his Facebook posts had garnered almost 2,000 comments, many of which came from “fake accounts.”
Some media outlets took him at face value, but some decided to think outside the box. Last Sunday, local daily SVT ran a piece that appears to debunk Ygeman’s claims. Most of the comments in question can be traced back to a local grassroots group called ‘WiFi Radiation Health Risks Stop FiveGee,’ the paper claims.
It didn’t find any sign of Moscow’s hand in there; instead, the group appears to be run by a local 64-year-old Stockholm woman named Katarina Hollbrink who describes herself as an “ordinary Swedish grandmother who is worried about radiation.”
Nice to see some old lions roaring!
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