.no ("Actually.no") is a Norwegian fact-checking website produced through a cooperation between major media companies of Norway, including the state broadcasting company

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, the

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(which owns ''

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'' and ''

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'') and the liberal newspaper ''

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''. It is part of the

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. The website was founded in 2017. Its editor-in-chief was Kristoffer Egeberg until June 2023. In 2018 it announced a partnership with

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to fact-check content on the platform. Egeberg, editor-in-chief since its inception, announced his resignation with immediate effect in June 2023 to assume a position in the Norwegian secret surveillance and intelligence service PST.

References

External links

Official website
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