Social Media

TikTok has opened a new "transparency and accountability centre" in Dublin which experts can visit to see how it works to protect users online. Dara Calleary, minister of state for trade promotion, digital and company regulation, joined TikTok yesterday to officially open the new centre, which 

Lawyer Paul Tweed has said he is exploring the possibility of bringing a group action against Big Tech companies in the Irish courts. Mr Tweed told The Journal that he is discussing with with cyberpsychology professor Mary Aiken the possibility of a legal action focused on screen addiction.

Facebook and Instagram owner Meta has been slapped with a €91 million fine after inadvertently storing some users' passwords in plain text. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Friday announced its final decision in an inquiry launched in April 2019.

Coimisiún na Meán has launched a formal review of online platforms' systems for reporting illegal content. TikTok, X, YouTube, Meta, LinkedIn, Temu, Pinterest, Shein, Etsy, Dropbox, Hostelworld and Tumblr have been issued with formal requests for information to ensure they are complyin

Children's rights advocate Jillian van Turnhout has been appointed to chair a new online health taskforce. The former Senator is one of 14 members of the new taskforce, which has been asked by the government to develop a public health response to the harms caused to children and young people by cert

Members of Brazil's Supreme Court have voted unanimously to uphold a ban on X, formerly Twitter, in the country. The temporary ban had been imposed on Friday after the social media giant refused to comply with local laws.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded a record €550,000 to a former Twitter employee who was sacked after failing to click a button in an email from Elon Musk shortly after he acquired the company. Gary Rooney, former source-to-pay director at Dublin-based Twitter International U

Social media algorithms should be disabled by default to protect people from "hateful, false and violent content", the Irish and UK governments have been told. An open letter signed by over 240 organisations has called on Taoiseach Simon Harris, UK prime minister Keir Starmer and Northern Ireland le

Coimisiún na Meán has said it is assessing Meta's compliance with the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) after concerns were raised about online death threats against the Taoiseach. A sinister threat against Simon Harris was posted to Instagram and remained live for days, even after An Gard

Elon Musk's social media company X has agreed to suspend its use of EU users' data to train an AI chatbot. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) this week launched High Court proceedings under section 134 of the Data Protection Act 2018 for the first time in order to prevent X from using EU dat

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched High Court proceedings against Twitter International Unlimited Company, the Dublin-based data controller for social media platform X. The regulator is seeking an injunction preventing the company from using EU users' data to train an AI-powered

Elon Musk's social media company X, formerly Twitter, is suing a group of major advertisers for allegedly organising an "illegal boycott" shortly after his acquisition. In a bizarre video posted to X, the company's CEO Linda Yaccarino said the legal action was a response to evidence recently heard b

Meta is facing further EU action over its "pay or consent" advertising model on Facebook and Instagram on the grounds that it may breach EU consumer law. The Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network has written to the social media giant in a co-ordinated EU action led by the French Directorate

Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is breaching the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) by allowing anyone to buy a "blue checkmark" previously reserved for notable figures, the European Commission has said. Following an in-depth investigation, the Commission has informed X of its pr

Children should be banned from using social media until the age of 16, a newly-elected Irish MEP has said. Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Fianna Fáil MEP for Ireland South and a barrister, said the European Parliament should introduce new age-verification requirements to protect children f