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Mullvad founder donated 5 million SEK to populist Örebro party (www.flamman.se)

submitted 1 week ago by zaylon@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.

How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.

https://orebropartiet.se/om-oss/

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is validating according to you, personally traveling to the guy and asking him?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this is just one rando saying something on the internet!

okay, then lets hate everyone, you can trust nobody, because I say everyone is nazi or some other undesirable, there's no one without ulterior motives, trust me bro. look even linus torvalds is nazi! look he still lives in the USA, and I have insider knowledge about a secret donation he made to trump! no you can't check it anywhere, just trust me, look my account is 3 years old, super legitimate. instead use my super cleaned out distribution of windows 11, leave your CIA bugged linux behind, and you can sign up to my services because no where else but here you will be safe! pinky promises. if you let the community be divided like that, here you go.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So you're saying the guy didn't donate $500.000 to a Nazi party and the article just made it up?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

yes. until we have ~~further~~ evidence, we shouldn't take this at face value.

or do you have a reason to believe this is not likely a smear campaign?