In late 2021, a social media campaign about the Swedish social services started to grow rapidly. The claims centre upon social services’ use of the law on the Swedish Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act (LVU). This is a law which allows social services to remove minors from their homes and place them in either foster care or in a family home. The current study aims at looking at the latest crisis with the social services and examine if the discourses constructed in the tweets and if there are other actors who contribute to the escalation abusing the situation of immigrants in Sweden. 

 Multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) is the main method used to analyze the tweets. However, we have mapped the total population quantitatively to see the tweets language as well as mapping the location and keywords used in the tweets.

The analysis reveal a gap between decision makers, social services authorities, and immigrants. What is communicated is the violent actions that the social services perform towards the parents without any clear information about what is the process to take a child away from the family and what happens to that child. Sweden is constructed as a dystopia for immigrants when it comes to social services. They feel they are oppressed and discriminated.