.no ("Actually.no") is a Norwegian

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produced through a cooperation between major media companies of Norway, including the state broadcasting company

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, the

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(which owns ''

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'' and ''

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'') and the liberal newspaper ''

Dagbladet () is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally it was considered the main liberal newspaper of Norway, with a ...

''. It is part of the

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. The website was founded in 2017.

Kristoffer Egeberg Kristoffer Egeberg (born 1974) is a Norwegian editor. Biography Working for the newspaper ''Dagbladet'', Egeberg received the SKUP Award for 2014, for disclosure of sales of decommissioned naval ships of the Royal Norwegian Navy to Nigerian para ...

, editor-in-chief since its inception, announced his resignation with immediate effect in June 2023 to assume a position in the Norwegian secret surveillance and intelligence service PST. In 2018 Faktisk.no announced a partnership with

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to fact-check content on the platform.

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