[3] Expo grouped Nyheter Idag with "right-wing populist and far-right alternative media",[4] but also stated that it was the news site most difficult to fit into that mold.

In the article, the journalist and founder of Nyheter Idag, Chang Frick wrote about his and Sweden Democrats MP Pavel Gamov's travel to Russia.

Frick accused Gamov of acting irresponsibly by getting wasted, calling sex workers to his hotel room and demanding that the host country pay for his bar check.

The subsequent media attention led the leadership of the Sweden Democrats party to force Pavel's resignation.

In a private e-mail to Martin Kinnunen – then press secretary of the Sweden Democrats, Chang Frick wrote that the site was "positive" to the party and they would not try to harm it.