Sweden has increasingly come into international far right focus, and digital media sites in the United States have proven especially active in spreading mis- and disinformative narratives about the country. Using social network analysis and descriptive statistics, we trace 776 links over a 27 year-period to understand how U.S. far-right media sites construct the idea of Sweden as ‘the rape capital’ of the world. The article makes several contributions as it pertains both to the technological and ideological functions of citing for digital far-right media. We highlight the (lack of) timeliness of sourcing, the role of mainstream sources for repurposing and amplification, and practices of exaggeration and pseudo-legitimisation. Against the backdrop of our findings, we suggest the need for approaching digital far-right media information practices as more complex and subtle than they have previously been conceived, and highlight the necessity to problematise misinformation as a label for misrepresentation in digital far-right media.

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通过引用累积的虚假信息：调查瑞典作为世界“强奸之都”的纵向结构

瑞典越来越成为国际极右翼关注的焦点，事实证明，美国的数字媒体网站在传播有关该国的错误和无信息叙述方面特别活跃。使用社交网络分析和描述性统计数据，我们在 27 年的时间里追踪了 776 个链接，以了解美国极右翼媒体网站如何构建瑞典作为世界“强奸之都”的概念。这篇文章做出了几项贡献，因为它与数字极右翼媒体引用的技术和意识形态功能有关。我们强调了来源的（缺乏）及时性，主流来源在再利用和放大方面的作用，以及夸大和伪合法化的做法。在我们的调查结果的背景下，我们建议需要处理数字极右翼媒体的信息实践，使其比以前设想的更加复杂和微妙，并强调有必要将错误信息问题化，将其作为数字极右翼媒体中虚假陈述的标签。