On Friday, the Norwegian newspaper VG reported that Trump’s victory congested crisis phones. According to Elon Musk, the Norwegian media has lied to the people.
Billionaire Elon Musk claims in his own X service that the Norwegian media is lying and urges people to join the messaging service X to “get truthful information”.
Musk’s accounting on Friday is connected to a special chain of events that started with the US election results.
On Friday, a Norwegian newspaper VG’s reports that Trump’s victory on November 5 has raised concerns among women, young people, and gender and sexual minorities in Norway as well.
VG interviewed the general secretary of the church’s crisis service Lasse Heimdallwho reported that church-run crisis services were overwhelmed in Norway after Trump’s election victory.
According to Heidmal, Norwegians called the helpline after the election feeling anxious and wanted to share their concerns about the US election result with the volunteers.
The news about the crisis phone being congested spread to Sweden.
A well-known Swedish far-right political commentator Peter Imanuelsen shared a screenshot of VG’s story in X.
Imanuelsen wrote on his X account that the Norwegian media are brainwashed people.
On Friday, Musk seized on the brainwashing claim and attacked the Norwegian media.
It is not the first time that Musk has shared the false claims of the Swedish Imanuelsen about the Norwegian press.
For example, during the election, Musk commented that anti-Trump propaganda is “the wildest on the other side of the ocean”.
Secretary General of the Norwegian Association of Journalists Reidun Kjelling Nybø comment with a message For the Nettavisen online magazinethat Musk’s message did not surprise the journalists’ association.
– I trust that Norwegians understand the difference between journalistic media and social media. X is not an important platform in Norway. Only 14 percent of Norwegians use X daily, the message says.
The representative of the journalists’ association expects that there may be more attacks against the media in the near future.
There is also news about the chain of events Aftonbladet.