It’s no secret that Facebook is full of hate groups, but that doesn’t make it less annoying. One of the Swedish hate groups (“En död bög, är en bra bög!”) promotes deadly violence directed at gay men. It has come to my knowledge that the three founding members not only run this homophobic Facebook group but also send threatening messages to gay individuals online. Many have complained to Facebook’s abuse department about the group and these three individuals, but nothing happens. So I thought I post this short blog entry, as a service to whomever wants to search the Internet for information about any of these young men.

The three men are Mattias Brander, Erik Bejje Månsson, and Felix Karlström. They all live in Edsele, a very small village located between Örnsköldsvik and Östersund in northern Sweden. They are young and probably quite harmless in real life, but their actions online goes far beyond what is legally and morally acceptable.

Update posted on 25 January 2010 at 21:40: Less than twenty-four hours after I published this entry, Facebook decided to close down the named hate group. From what I can tell, the three men’s accounts seem to have been terminated, too. Good!