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Björn Borg shares his underwear with McEnroe

Swedish tennis-legend-turned-designer Björn Borg will be sharing his underwear with former rival John McEnroe.

Björn Borg shares his underwear with McEnroe

The sports duo will be joining forces, through the launch of a limited edition underwear collection, and have chosen to market it with a Facebook campaign, asking users to find their ultimate opposite, among the 700 million other Facebook users worldwide.

“This campaign is a way for us to celebrate the unlikely friendship that Björn and John share,” said Erik Jarnsjö, marketing director at Björn Borg, in a statement.

A test constructed by a professional psychologist will help Facebook users search for the person most different to themselves. Those considered to be absolute opposites will win a trip to New York City, and a meeting with the two tennis legends.

“The challenge was constructing a test which is complicated enough to reveal a person’s total opposite among 700 million people,” explained David Morgenstern, the psychologist behind the experiment, in a statement.

“For this to work, the results are based on how people react to images, which means there will be an endless number of different results and variables to compare. I’d call the test a combination of scientific seriousness combined with entertainment, scientific art.”

The underwear collection, consisting of four styles and launched in August, is inspired by the golden age of tennis, and has an “air of the eighties”, according to a statement released by Björn Borg on Wednesday.

The 1980’s was the era when the almost four hours long Wimbledon final between the two friendly rivals Borg and McEnroe took place.

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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.

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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