The program ’Everybody Loves Rasmus’, which the public service broadcaster TV 2 chose to pull from its lineup of programmes this weekend, is not the first example of a major Danish television station making a show in which certain people were deceived.

That also happened in 2022, when the Danish broadcaster DR aired the television program ’Ellen imellem’. In that case, a number of researchers were led to believe they were being interviewed by a journalist. In reality, however, the journalist was asking questions fed to her through a hidden earpiece by a group of conspiracy theorists.