Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Chess-tweet from the UDI creates reactions: – Was an attempt at humor – NRK

Wednesday evening meetings a pressed Magnus Carlsen, the Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin to yet another nerve-wracking showdown in the Chess world cup. Carlsen is the player with the black pieces. Several hundred thousand norwegians follow the excitement, among them also one of the Norwegian directorate of immigration’s kommunikasjonsmedarbeidere.

“let me know if we are going to use some white pieces (tower a6) or whether the black carpet should be family reunion with the king”, tvitret the UDI soon after the clock 21 on Thursday night, in the middle of tonight’s party.

the UDI has the responsibility for the processing of applications from foreigners who want to visit or live in Norway, the operation of reception centres and utvisningssaker. The link between chess and asylum cases fell in the poor soil of many Twitter users.

Around one and a half hours after that message was posted has over 50 people black UDI. Most of them very negative:

Among the many who have responded to the message is the socialist left, Snorre Valen:

Ingeborg Grimsmo, communications director at the UDI, was not familiar with the message when she talked with NRK around the clock 22: 00 to Wednesday evening.



Ingeborg Grimsmo, director of communications at the UDI.

Photo: Nora Lie, UDI

Shortly after, after having investigated the case, has Grimsmo found an explanation.

It is one of our who have posted this. It was an attempt to be humorous, but it came out completely wrong, ” says Ingeborg Grimsmo, director of communications at the UDI.

– There are several in the communications department that operates this, so this is our own mistake, ” says Grimsmo.

Also the UDI director Frode Blame was the message Thursday evening.

“It went out a twitter message from @Utlendingsdir in the evening which was a completely failed attempt at humor. Can only apologise for the strong”, writes the Blame on Twitter.



A Facebook group is gathered in Nydalen in Oslo. They make a hylekor against immigration and integreringsminister Sylvi Listhaug.

Photo: Bendiksby, Terje / NTB scanpix

Twitter-the message from the UDI comes in a asyldebatt-climate that has been very heated the last few days. Wednesday afternoon screaming around a hundred people, a self-proclaimed “hylekor”, of the full throat outside the Sylvia Listhaugs offices in Nydalen in Oslo.

the Background is that the actor Kristoffer Get started a campaign on Facebook aimed at innvandringsminister Sylvi Listhaug (Frp). This led to the NOAS received several million kroner to provide asylum seekers with information and assistance.

Listhaug noticed Joners posts, and wrote on Facebook that the actors, commentators and the rest of the left have “raised themselves on hylekoret”.

– What will this hylekortet? Will they have the Swedish conditions in the Uk? They want everyone to be if they need protection or not? They will have open borders? I am certainly not wise in them, writes the immigration and integreringsministeren in the post.

Later it became known that the agency was behind the Joners posts. Listhaug, as even to obtain help in writing their messages in social messages, said to NRK that she “could understand if people were disappointed”.

Just after The second conversation with UDI-Grimsmo on Wednesday night, also came regret in social media. Without that this seems to have muted the reaction is significant:

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