It was in May 2018 that Assignment Review sent the featured program "#metoo and Fredrik Virtanen" which was about the media profile Cissi Wallin's rape charges against and name publication of the former Aftonbladet profile Fredrik Virtanen. The charges against Virtanen were made in a post on Cissi Wallin's Instagram account during the fall 2017 metoo.

The Assignment Review program questions, among other things, several details that have been circulated in the media about what Virtanen has been accused of.

Not motivated

On Monday, the Review Board announced that the program will be canceled as it violates the privacy rule. According to the committee, the sensitive information from Cissi Wallin's police report and the closed preliminary investigation that were included in the program were not justified by the public interest, they write in the decision.

- We are freed on all other points, such as objectivity and impartiality, but are subject to intrusion into Cissi Wallin's privacy, says Ulf Johansson, responsible publisher for Assignment Review, to the Culture News.

2 187 people reported the program to the Review Board and thus became the most notified individual program in SVT's history. Many of the reports are about the applicants finding that UG has failed in its task of being unkind and impartial. However, these notifications are exempt from UG.

"An unusual decision"

At the same time, the Review Board was divided on the issue.

- Three wanted to free and three wanted to trap. The chairman used his casting vote to drop, so it is a very unusual decision, says Ulf Johansson and continues:

- Those who wanted to be free meant that Cissi Wallin himself went out with the information we published, while those who wanted to drop think it does not matter for our publication.

On August 30, it became known that Cissi Wallin was being prosecuted for gross indecency.

The cultural news seeks Cissi Wallin and the Review Board for a comment.