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The police officer who led the response to the Manchester Arena bombing last year has said Twitter and Facebook should be required to remove terrorist attack images and videos that could distress victims’ families.
Ian Hopkins, the chief constable of Greater Manchester police, said while most newspapers abided by the voluntary editors’ code of practice that restricts the publication of material that intrudes on relatives’ grief, there is no equivalent for social media companies, which set their own rules.
Speaking at the Society of Editors annual conference in Salford, he said he was “100%" in favour of rules that would force social media sites to take down intrusive material down “very quickly” if the police asked.
The proposal was also backed by the Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham.