Hacking Hate
Simon Klose / Sweden / 2024 / 87 min
Undercover in the far-right online communities in the Nordics with a fearless female journalist. A riveting story with more than a few twists along the way, at a moment when there is both power and money in spreading hate.
If you’re looking for excitement in life, My Vingren can lend you some. The award-winning and fearless Swedish journalist has made it her mission to uncover far-right organisations from the inside. And she does it so well that she has been called the real-life equivalent of Lisbeth Salander. She goes undercover on the darkest pages of the internet and uncovers how neo-Nazis in the Nordic countries are organised – and you get a bit of a shock when you realise how widespread the rot is at a time when platforms earn huge sums of money from all the clicks that hate and lies generate. With the help of the people who led to Donald Trump’s Twitter account being shut down and who were sued by Elon Musk, she digs deep into the heart of the Scandinavian underground of bizarre Nazi influencers, and there’s more than a twist or two to the story. But her dedication comes at a high price. Simon Klose has created a deeply compelling thriller from the real world about a woman who does what she can to change it.