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Norwegian tattoos McDonald’s bill on arm

An 18-year-old Norwegian has found fame world-wide after deciding to tattoo a McDonald's receipt onto his forearm.

Published: 27 March 2014 12:42 CET
Norwegian tattoos McDonald's bill on arm
Stian Ytterdahl shows off his tattoo on his Facebook Page. Photo: Facebook
"A couple of my friends thought I had been a little too active towards the ladies lately and wanted to punish me," Stian Ytterdahl told the local Romerikes Blad newspaper on Tuesday. "When we were at McDonald's on Monday, they said I either had to get a Barbie tattoo on my ass or the receipt on my arm. 
 
He chose the latter. 
 
"Now I'm a living billboard, but I think it's all just fun. Maybe it won't be as fun when I'm 50 or 60 years old, but that's my choice." 
 
Now the story has gone viral around the world, Ytterdahl has even set up a dedicated Facebook page, 'Stian Ytterdahl's extraordinary McDonald's Tattoo', for his new skin art. 
 
"Tattooing a McDonald's receipt onto your arm is actually quite absurdly cool!" he wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday morning. 

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Facebook deletes virus conspiracy accounts in Germany

Facebook says it has deleted the accounts, pages and groups linked to virus conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers in Germany who are vocal opponents of government restrictions to control the coronavirus pandemic.

Published: 17 September 2021 09:06 CEST
Updated: 17 September 2021 15:52 CEST
Facebook deletes virus conspiracy accounts in Germany
An anti-vaccination and anti-Covid demo in Berlin on August 28th. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Christophe Gateau

With just 10 days to go before Germany’s parliamentary elections – where the handling of the pandemic by Angela Merkel’s goverment will come under scrutiny – Facebook said it had “removed a network of Facebook and Instagram accounts” linked to the so-called “Querdenker” or Lateral Thinker movement.

The pages posted “harmful health misinformation, hate speech and incitement to violence”, the social media giant said in a statement.

It said that the people behind the pages “used authentic and duplicate accounts to post and amplify violating content, primarily focused on promoting the conspiracy that the German government’s Covid-19 restrictions are part of a larger plan to strip citizens of their freedoms and basic rights.”

The “Querdenker” movement, which is already under surveillance by Germany’s intelligence services, likes to portray itself as the mouthpiece of opponents
of the government’s coronavirus restrictions, organising rallies around the country that have drawn crowds of several thousands.

READ ALSO: Germany’s spy agency to monitor ‘Querdenker’ Covid sceptics

It loosely groups together activists from both the far-right and far-left of the political spectrum, conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers. And some of their rallies have descended into violence.

Social media platforms regularly face accusations that they help propagate misinformation and disinformation, particularly with regard to the pandemic and vaccines.

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