För sanning och frihet : En nätnografisk fallstudie om censurens påverkan på Frihetsrörelsens facebookgrupp

The Corona Pandemic 2019 has taken a toll on the skepticism against vaccination and once again the conflict about vaccination has risen. Due to the speed of technological development in correlation with more people being drawn to digital networks these movements has grown bigger than ever. The purpose of this study is to investigate the Swedish anti-vaccination movement Frihetsrörelsens and how the members' experience censorship of vaccination skepticism regarding Covid-19 and if it has affected their interactions on Facebook. The method that forms the basis for the study is qualitative interviews and netnographic study. The material is collected from Frihetsrörelsens Facebook group and thereafter coded to seek underlying themes in the transcripted interviews and the published posts on Facebook. The results show that the members experience censorship to the extent that they can not express themselves freely about opinions that are against or critical towards vaccination. In the study there appeared to be a general distrust of government agencies, the media and pharmaceutical companies among the members. Mistrust also seemed to have resulted in arguments that there is a hidden agenda behind the Covid-19 pandemic because of the censorship. The experience and awareness of censorship has led to members moving to the uncensored platform Telegram