In her speech in Almedalen, Busch listed three quotes from different feminist profiles and claimed that Elina Pahnke said that "Men's power is not an abstraction - it is concrete, and it crushes lives."
It was Elina Pahnke herself who noticed the mistake in a text in Aftonbladet on Thursday.
"I'm listening to Ebba Busch's speech again. I don't recognize the quote. Have I really written that?"
Now the Deputy Prime Minister is backtracking in a post on Facebook, where she explains that the quote was fabricated by an AI tool. Something Pahnke also speculated about, since it resembles a quote from another Aftonbladet profile, Tone Schunnesson, if not exactly.
"That I attributed to her something she didn't say verbatim, is extremely unfortunate and I want to apologize to both her and all who listened", writes Busch.
In the post, Busch describes how she and her team asked the AI tool where the quote came from and then got the answer that it came from a "deleted tweet" by Pahnke and an article in the magazine Arbetet from 2017.
"This is a completely new situation for us that we get a direct source that doesn't turn out to be true. We take this seriously and it means that we will work differently from now on", writes Ebba Busch.
