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10 May 2025, 23:51 | Updated: 10 May 2025, 23:54
By Flaminia Luck
Sweden's newly appointed national security adviser has resigned just hours after starting his new role, after sexually explicit pictures of him on the dating app Grindr were sent anonymously to the government.
Tobias Thyberg, who assumed the position on Thursday and stepped down by Friday morning, had failed to disclose this information during his security clearance process, according to government officials.
According to information obtained by the Swedish newspaper Expressen, the government received the images from an anonymous source shortly after it announced Thyberg’s appointment as national security adviser.
"These are old pictures from an account I previously had on the dating site Grindr.
"I should have informed about this, but I did not," he told a Swedish newspaper.
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Thyberg had been scheduled to accompany the prime minister to a meeting of Northern European leaders in Norway on Friday, but his attendance was cancelled.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said the information should have been shared during the vetting process, according to Reuters.
He told reporters in Oslo: "It is a systemic failure that this kind of information has not been brought forward."
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