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Danish toy giant Lego boycotts social media advertising over toxic content

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 11:27:48 +0200

Danish toy maker Lego said Wednesday it was halting all paid advertising on social media for a month, joining a growing list of global brands boycotting social networking giants over their handling of hateful and toxic content.

Denmark's health chief cuts own hair and sends cash to barber

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:57:13 +0200

The head of Denmark's health service posted a picture of himself with a new military-style buzzcut on social media on Sunday, before admonishing Danes to, like him, cut their own hair and then send the money to their hairdressers.

'Not a new standard for diplomacy': Danish PM on tweet to Trump

Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:16:15 +0100

Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen spoke on Thursday night about his reasons for sending a tweet about the US gun control debate.

OPINION: Why PM Lars Løkke Rasmussen's error-strewn English is fine by us

Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:44:04 +0100

Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen had his say in the American gun control debate on Wednesday, but ended up facing ridicule for his written English.

Danish foreign minister calls Trump tweet 'undignified and inappropriate'

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 13:05:49 +0200

Denmark’s Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen has criticised a tweet by Donald Trump in which edited archive video footage shows the US President physically attacking the logo of American media outlet CNN.

The Nordic nations have gone to war… on Twitter

Wed, 23 Nov 2016 13:46:33 +0100

It’s thought that the Vikings first arrived in Canada about 1000 years ago when Leif Eriksson went ashore in Newfoundland, and the North American country has sparked another Nordic epic of the modern kind this week, when Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway squared off in a Twitter war.

That epic time Denmark and Sweden got into a Twitter war

Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:27:17 +0200

The age-old rivalry between Sweden and Denmark took a surprising turn on Thursday.