How game-adjacent platforms are being used to spread information influences : The information influences Swedish players are being subjected to on game-adjacent platforms

Sammanfattning

The internet has been subjected to undue information influences since its inception but video games and even to an extent game-adjacent platforms have started to be subjected to undue information influences too. The Swedish Psychological Defence Agency has documented the ways Sweden could be subjected to undue information influences although they have not documented if it has already occurred, and they only focused on foreign threats and not domestic threats. This research tries to document if undue information influences has already occurred to Swedish players on game-adjacent platforms with a focus on both domestic and foreign threats. This research found out that Swedish players are not subjected to information influences on a daily basis although there are occasions where they are, and when they do see information influences it is usually connected to foreign countries or organisations, Swedish political parties and anti-wokeness like Gamergate and Nazism.