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A little boy who was born with a facial disfigurement has had pictures of his face taken down by Instagram after another user complained they were offended.

Harry Beswick, 12, who is missing an eye, his left ear and a nostril, left his home without his prosthetic eye - and the snap his proud mum Charlie shared of him on her Instagram page was deleted by the app without warning.

He, his mum and his twin brother Oliver appeared on Good Morning Britain today to talk about Instagram's decision, which was taken when a user flagged up the photograph as offensive content.

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The report was sent to Instagram's content moderation team, which reviewed the photo and decided it breached community guidelines. The picture was then taken down, outraging Harry's mum.

Charlie told Susanna Reid that two images have been removed from her Instagram account, both of which show Harry without his prosthetic eye in.

"I can only assume someone has reported it because they don't agree with Harry's appearance, they don't want to see that - which is fine, everyone's entitled to their opinion. But they can just ignore the picture, scroll past," said Charlie.

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"But they've chosen to report it and Instagram has agreed with them. So my issue is that Instagram are condoning their attitude towards Harry's appearance."

Harry was born with Goldenhar syndrome - a rare congenital defect that can affect the development of the eyes, nose, ear, soft palate and upper jaw within the womb.

Those with Goldenhar can also have undeveloped organs, in particular the heart, lungs and kidneys, which can lead to health problems as they grow.

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But luckily, Harry is unaware of some people's cruel opinions of his face.

"Thankfully he's relatively unaware of what's going on - as you can see, he's a happy little boy," Charlie went on.

"But that makes me more passionate about supporting him and fighting for him, because right now he's as lovely, cute young boy, but he's going to turn into a vulnerable adut. And as his mum, I want to protect him and be his voice, so people can judge him on who he is and not just what he looks like."

"It's his face - I don't see why anyone would want to take it down," added Harry's twin brother Oliver.

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While Instagram ignored Charlie's first complaint back in August about her first picture being removed, her second went viral when the determined mum took to Twitter this week to hit back at the app.

Her tweet with the so-called 'offensive' photo quickly racked up more than 100,000 retweets and thousands of comments from supporters, who called on Instagram to apologise.

A statement from the photo-sharing app reads: "We mistakenly removed the photo, but quickly restored it as soon as the mistake was brought to our attention.

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"We have apologized to the family," it added.

However, Charlie says she's been given no further information about which of the community guidelines her photograph of Harry's face was supposed to have breached.

Good Morning Britain is on weekdays from 6am on ITV.