Metapedia
Internet encyclopedia | |
Available in | English, German, Spanish, Swedish, French, Norwegian, Greek, Romanian, Estonian, Slovak, Czech, Portuguese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch |
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Owner | NFSE Media AB, Linköping, Sweden |
URL | en |
Commercial | No |
Registration | Optional, via e-mail (required for editing) |
Launched | 26 October 2006 |
Current status | Active |
Content license | GNU Free Documentation License 1.3 |
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Antisemitism |
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Metapedia is an online
History
The Swedish Metapedia was founded in 2006 by Anders Lagerström (born October 14, 1977), a
Anders Lagerström has long been involved in extreme right-wing organizations. In 2000, he was convicted of spraying tear gas in the face of a police officer. In 2002 he started the Nordic publishing house, which specializes in issuing and selling Nazi literature and white power music. Lagerström is also a prominent figure in the Nordic Federation. The Nazi organization seems to be creating a "Nordic nation state". The organization's website says the following about how this imaginary nation should look: "It means a society populated by a people, and a state power and mass media entirely under Nordic control."[3]
Swedish historian Rasmus Fleischer wrote:
In 2007, another network began to crystallize within Europe's radical right but with a vastly different ideological character. Activists from the Swedish group Nordiska Förbundet made a coordinated effort to use the internet to propagate a more 'positive' image of
Jewish conspiracy.[4]
Content
Metapedia describes itself as being an alternative to Wikipedia that focuses on
The wiki covers a total of 17 languages, with German Metapedia being the most developed.[14]
According to the
In early 2007, within half a year of the launching of the original Swedish edition, Metapedia received much Swedish media attention for its similarity to
In a June 2017 article, Alexis Sobel Fitts from Wired noted that the Hungarian and German Metapedia are "especially popular".[8] As of 2022, the Hungarian version is closed.
Operation
Metapedia runs on MediaWiki, a free and open-source wiki software platform written in PHP and built upon the MySQL database.[15][21][22]
Metapedia is headed by Lagerström and Lennart Berg, who also runs the supporting NFSE Media AB.[18]
See also
- Alt-right
- Far-right politics
- Fascism in Europe
- Gab (social network)
- Neo-Nazism in Sweden
- New Right
- Infogalactic
References
- ^ Popkonsertbloggen (8 February 2007). "Nazistsida blir fall för JK - Linköping - Corren.se - Nyheter Linköping Östergötland" (in Swedish). Corren.se. Archived from the original on 13 June 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ^ ISSN 2211-6257.
- ^ Popkonsertbloggen (21 February 2008). "Nazist anhållen för grovt rån - Nyheter - Corren.se - Nyheter Linköping Östergötland" (in Swedish). Corren.se. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- ISBN 978-3643905420.
- ^ "Aryan Encyclopedia Takes Off". Intelligence Report. Montgomery, Alabama: Southern Poverty Law Center. 2007. Archived from the original on 12 March 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- ^ "Llegó la Wikipedia de ultraderecha" (in Spanish). Crítica de la Argentina.
- ^ Goldhagen, Daniel (18 October 2013). "How the Web spreads anti-Semitism". CNN. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
- ^ ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ISBN 978-1-936117-07-9.
- ^ Perrine Signoret (27 June 2017). "Infogalactic, Metapedia, Conservapedia: l'extrême droite aussi a ses "Wikipédia"". LExpansion.com (in French). Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- Theregister.co.uk. Situation Publishing. Archived from the originalon 28 June 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
- ^ Schweyer, Cléo (15 July 2009). "L'extrême droite s'offre une seconde jeunesse sur le web". cafebabel.fr (in French). Babel International. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
- ^ Ministry of Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia. pp. 59f. (in German)
- ^ ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ a b Bulletin of the German Parliament 16/10215 from 12 September 2008, pp. 6f.: Answer of the German government to a parliamentary query by the Green Member of the German Parliament Monika Lazar (in German)
- ^ "Judeförföljelser på internet" (in Swedish). Dagens Nyheter. 8 February 2007. Archived from the original on 18 October 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
- ^ Propagandapedia Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine Kristianstadsbladet, 20 February 2007 (in Swedish)
- ^ a b Nazistsida blir fall för JK Östgöta Correspondenten, 9 February 2007 (in Swedish), Archived 23 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ingen förundersökning kring Metapedia Archived 5 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Sveriges Radio Östergötland, 20 February 2007 (in Swedish)
- ^ JK: Positiv text om Hitler inte hets mot folkgrupp[permanent dead link] Föreningen Grävande Journalister, 26 January 2009 (in Swedish)
- ^ Judeförföljelser på internet Archived 9 October 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Dagens Nyheter, 8 February 2007 (in Swedish)
- ^ Extremisternas "uppslagsverk" kan vara olagligt[permanent dead link], Östgöta Correspondenten, 9 February 2007 (in Swedish)