As of Wednesday morning, 1,555 complaints have come to the Broadcasting Council in connection with the Instagram post. It is thus the third most filed case in the Broadcasting Council’s history. Now member of the Broadcasting Council and former politician, Trude Drevland, is asking that the matter be taken up at the next meeting, which is on 9 March. – The Broadcasting Council is the extended arm of listeners and viewers. It would be reprehensible if we did not deal with a case with so many complaints, says Drevland to news. Trude Drevland during a meeting of the Broadcasting Council at news. Photo: Håkon Mosvold Larsen / NTB Spread at record speed The background is a picture that one of Norway’s biggest influencers, Sophie Elise Isachsen (28), published on Instagram on Sunday last week. In the photo, Isachsen is standing next to a friend, who is also an influencer. In her left hand, her friend holds a small transparent plastic bag containing something white. The caption reads: “Life is about a billion times more fun when you just give a damn.” The picture on Sophie Elise Isachsen’s profile, with over 580,000 followers, was removed after a short time. In recent days, however, it has been spread at record speed via social media such as TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit and Facebook. Several posts on social media encourage others to submit a complaint to the Broadcasting Council. Rarely many complaints Secretary of the Broadcasting Council, Erik Skarrud, will not speculate on whether the case will be dealt with or not. Usually it is decided a few days before the meeting. – It would be wrong to say anything about it, says Skarrud to news. It is rare that they receive so many complaints in such a short time, according to Skarrud. – There are perhaps a handful of times each year that there are over a hundred complaints about a case, but this varies from year to year, he told news on Tuesday. In second place among the most filed cases comes the Skavlan interview with Jimmie Åkesson, who is party leader of the Sweden Democrats, with 3,600 complaints. “Fate makes the choice” is in first place with 6,000 complaints. Fetisha and Sophie Elise talk about how Sophie Elise has been in the last year. news: No consequences for podcast collaboration Sophie Elise Isachsen is associated with news through the podcast “Sophie og Fetisha”, which is published every Thursday. news stated on Tuesday that the Instagram picture has no consequences for the collaboration: – We spoke to Sophie Elise today. The photo in question was not taken in connection with news or posted on any of news’s platforms, so it would not be right for us to comment on it, said acting editor in news Entertainment, Christina Rezk Resar, in an e-mail. news has previously received 42 complaints about the podcast. Most of the complaints are reactions to the fact that news has chosen to associate Isachsen as a profile. news Nyheter has tried for several days to get a comment from Sophie Elise Isachsen and her friend without success. Sophie Elise Isachsen is associated with news through the podcast “Sophie og Fetisha”. Her client is news Entertainment. news Nyheter works journalistically independently with this case.
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Broadcasting Council member requests that the Sophie Elise case be dealt with
