When it faced a tsunami of disinformation about the treatment of Muslims that has in recent months fueled protests from Stockholm to Baghdad, Sweden decided it needed to fight back.
It turned to the Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense that its government created last year. The agency has become the first line of defense for a country facing a sustained information attack from abroad.
The country’s leaders are also borrowing from the old Cold War strategy to steel the country’s 10 million people for the possibility of "total war” with the Soviet Union.