Erasure of footage at state media under investigation
An entire folder of video footage was deleted before it could be archived.
20 Nov 2018, 9:00 AM
A police investigation is under way to identify a state media employee who deleted footage at the Public Service Media corporation’s television news channel.
A police forensic team collected evidence and security footage from the TV building in Malé after the incident was reported Monday morning.
The footage from various events this year was stored at the PSM News server in a folder used for daily news bulletins. While some footage was archived after featuring in the news, other videos were unarchived “raw material,” according to PSM.
The entire folder was deleted but some footage has been recovered. It was reported to police by the PSM management.
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