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Would be fun to know who's sponsoring this smear campaign. After all, Mullvad has been stepping on many toes with their pro-privacy advocacy and enablement. I'd put my money on some combination of Thorn, Palantir, and whatever other surveillance capitalism corpos there are who'd benefit from less protected populace, both in policy and technology...
Why do you think it's a smear campaign? Did he not donate?
Because (at least on lemmy) they spam articles about this, and treat it like some "gotcha" moment that would make the company no longer able to fulfill their purpose.
One of the owners investing in a political party should not be this big of a deal, and the articles provided are clearly made to put suspicion on not only Mullvad but also on ÖP.
The campaign is actually more about positioning ÖP as some sort of "far-right"-party by the now left, because they are afraid to lose votes to them. They also of course wants to make it "shameable" for people to donate to this party so they cannot possibly win some votes this election.
I want to know if money I'm paying a company is directly contributing to fascists. According to Wikipedia,
Nationalism is a Key Smell of fascism.
Nationalism is a big part of leftist parties also, fascists does not have claim on that within itself.
Also as I have written in previous posts what ÖP is calling for is already part of the government today, and in a Swedish context means that migrants are given help if they VOLUNTARILY wants to leave.
https://www.migrationsverket.se/du-har-tillstand-i-sverige/internationellt-skydd-asyl/atervandringsbidrag.html
https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/10/ett-kraftigt-hojt-atervandringsbidrag/
Yes I checked the English wikipedia page, however the Swedish one makes no claims that ÖP would like to close the borders to migration. So I would urge to either check the parties own website about what they want or do a quick search. Clearly some bad actors have edited the page to put some views they have not voiced there.
The only source I find that says that "closed borders" are something they want, is flamman.se (what a suprise /s).
I don't think you need a targeted campaign for that... give some of the ~~lunatics~~ ~~extremists~~ left leaning lemmy folks only the slightest hint that some service may not pass the purity testing and they will jump on it like a fly on a big pile of shit.
Yes of course, it is to me just clear that it is not about Mullvad. The post are about ÖP.