A Finnish government minister has claimed that foreign media is spreading "false claims" about the Nordic nation in an attempt to discredit the government, with critics branding him as a conspiracy theorist for the remarks.
Newly-appointed Minister of Economic Affairs Wille Rydman, from the far-right Finns Party, first told public broadcaster Yle on Monday morning that certain people were "spreading false claims" about the government, and the Finnish media should be wary about the role of foreign media when it reports news about Finland.
In a separate Yle television interview on Monday evening, Rydman said that international media outlets, including German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, were being given false claims by "various researchers and social media activists, including journalists."
"This government has been branded with the most unsubstantiated and baseless claims," said Rydman, who got his job when the previous minister resigned after being exposed by Euronews and other media outlets for attending a 2019 event organised by neo-Nazis; and later controversially calling for mass abortions for African women to combat the climate crisis.
The leader of the Finns Party, Deputy Prime Minister Riikka Purra, was also unmasked last week by media outlets as the author of racist and violent blog posts, for which she apologised.
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