The Swedish government has a hotline to Facebook

The Swedish government has a direct hotline to facebook in order to remove "unreasonable things" and "problematic campaigns".

"Calls have been made" says infrastructure minister Peter Eriksson (Green party). He talks about the cooperation with Facebook in order to erase unwanted material in an interview. The interview starts with the host stating that the Swedish election "is threatened" and that Facebook has "kept what they promised" the the Swedish government because of this.

Recap:

The 23 march 2018 the Swedish justice-minister Morgan Johansson (social-democrat) announced that he wanted to have a private meeting with social media companies Google and Facebook in order to compel them to "stop hate and violence that is being spread by them". If they did not comply he would push for legislation forcing them to censor more Source The meeting between Morgan Johansson, Peter Eriksson and Google took place friday the 13 april 2018. Facebook did not attend. Source

The goal of the meeting seems to be to modify the Swedish version of Google and the Swedish version of Youtube and make them more adapted to censoring according to Swedish needs. In practice, of you visit Google or Youtube from a Swedish IP-address many videos and search results will be censored compared to for example IP-addresses from other countries.

In upcoming posts I will examine differences in search results and Youtube content between different countries. After the Morgan Johansson Google meeting I have noticed that many videos on Youtube are "not available on this country domain".