Editor fired over 'tasteless' Schumacher interview
The Hindu
Schumacher has not been seen in public since the injury.
The editor of German magazine Die Aktuelle has been sacked after using an artificial intelligence programme to generate fake quotes from seven-time Formula One champion Michael Schumacher, the media group Funke announced.
Anne Hoffmann had stirred up a storm of controversy when on Wednesday the magazine published the interview — the first since Schumacher suffered a serious brain injury in a 2013 skiing accident in the French Alps.
Schumacher's family, who have carefully guarded the 54-year-old's privacy since the accident, said they were planning legal action.
Bianca Pohlmann, director of the Funke magazine group, apologised to the family on Saturday.
"This article was in bad taste and misleading and should never have appeared," said Pohlmann in a statement.
"It does not meet in any way the standards of journalism that we — and our readers — expect of a group like Funke.
"The editor in chief of 'Die Aktuelle', Anne Hoffmann, who has been in charge since 2009, has been relieved of her role as of now."
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