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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Alex Hern

Instagram told to reinstate music video removed at request of Met police

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The oversight board is funded by Meta but operates largely independently. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

Meta’s oversight board, the quasi-independent “supreme court” of Facebook and Instagram, has forced the company to reinstate a clip of drill music originally removed from Instagram at the request of the Metropolitan police.

The clip, a short excerpt of the song Secrets Not Safe by Chinx (OS), was removed after the Met flagged the track to Meta, arguing that it could lead to “retaliatory violence” in the context of the London gang scene.

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