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Echo is heard – spreading bizarre sex rumors about Trump and Putin
Published May 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Media. After the insult of Zelenskyj in the White House, Sveriges Radio's Russia correspondent became so upset that she began telling fictional stories on live broadcast about Putin having sex with Trump. Now the state radio giant is being condemned by the review board for the feature.

Sveriges Radio's flagship Ekot has been found guilty by the Review Board for violating the requirement for objectivity in a live broadcast on February 28, 2025 - in connection with Volodymyr Zelenskyj's highly publicized visit to the White House.

In the broadcast, SR's Russia correspondent Maria Persson Löfgren chose to spread disinformation that Russia had a hold on US President Donald Trump.

The correspondent gave a long and incoherent speech about “films” from the Hotel International in Moscow in the 1980s, where Trump allegedly had “some very advanced sex with women,” and about business connections with Kremlin-loyal oligarchs. According to the SR correspondent, the films could be used to remotely control the American president.

Only a week later, after a report was submitted to the review board, did SR choose to correct the information – and then admitted that "there is no known official verification that the incident actually occurred".

According to the review board, however, the correction came too late to compensate for the factually inadequate reporting in Ekot, which is broadcast several times a day.

SR's correction was made during the broadcast on March 7, but the committee considers that this was not sufficient. The feature is therefore formally rejected for being unobjectionable. SR is now ordered to publish the decision.

Two of the committee's members, Kristina Åberg and Linnéa Jonjons, reserved their opinion on the decision and wanted to acquit Ekot.
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