Faktum newspaper hijacked on social media

Faktum newspaper hijacked on social media
full screen The newspaper Faktum is sold by people who live in homelessness or other social exclusion. Archive image. Photo: Stig-Åke Jönsson / TT

The newspaper Faktum’s Facebook page was hacked on Saturday morning. The site had suddenly been named Midjourney-AI, GP reports.

Faktum’s editor-in-chief believes that it is an AI generator that creates images that is behind the hijacking.

– It’s awful. It can hurt us a lot, says editor-in-chief Sarah Britz to the newspaper.

After the page got a new name, it was also not possible to access the page, writes GP. The administrators also no longer had access and therefore the newspaper cannot solve the problem themselves.

– We are an industry of trust, both towards the sellers and towards those who support Faktum, says Sarah Britz to GP.

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