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Facebook owner Meta has been fined €251 million by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) following a personal data breach. Around 29 million Facebook accounts globally, including around three million based in the EU/EEA, were impacted by a data breach reported by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited (

The European Commission has opened formal proceedings against TikTok in response to concerns about foreign interference in the Romanian presidential election. TikTok is suspected of breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA) in relation to its obligation to properly assess and mitigate systemic risks

Facebook is "exposed to terrorist content" and must take action to address this, Coimisiún na Meán has determined. The regulator's decision under the EU Terrorist Content Online Regulation follows a similar finding in respect of TikTok, X and Instagram in November 2024.

TikTok has been dealt a blow in its legal battle against a US law that would see the platform banned if it is not sold to a new owner. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against TikTok on Friday in its challenge to the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Contr

Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, has been ordered to pay legal costs in an Irish court case brought by former British MP George Galloway. Belfast-based KRW LAW LLP represented Mr Galloway in his defamation case brought in Dublin — where X's European headquarters are based — after the pla

Bluesky has said it is seeking legal guidance on compliance with EU law after the European Commission said it was failing to comply with transparency rules. The social media platform does not yet have 45 million monthly users in the EU, which is the threshold for designation as a very large online p

A legal academic has assembled a useful list of nearly 100 Bluesky accounts relating to Irish law. Professor Oran Doyle of Trinity College Dublin School of Law is still adding practitioners, academics, publishers and other institutions to his "Irish law starter pack".

Australia is to ban under-16s from social media platforms in a bid to protect young people from online harms. The Australian government yesterday introduced the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024, which will require social media platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent

Irish Legal News is now on Bluesky, the social media platform which has gained millions of new users in the past few days. Many communications and PR professionals across the country are no doubt weighing up whether their law firm employers or clients should establish a presence on the platform.

Meta has been fined nearly €800 million by the European Commission for competition law breaches related to Facebook Marketplace. According to the Commission, Meta abused its dominant position in the market for personal social networks by tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook.

TikTok, X and Instagram are "exposed to terrorist content" and must take immediate action to prevent it from spreading, Coimisiún na Meán has said. The regulator today published a decision in respect of the three hosting service providers under the EU Terrorist Content Online Regulatio

Elon Musk's X platform, formerly Twitter, is being sued for alleged copyright infringement by a coalition of French media outlets, including major newspapers Le Monde, Le Figaro and Le Parisien. The publishers allege that X has failed to comply with a French law which has, since 2019, required

LinkedIn has been slapped with a €310 million fine by Ireland's Data Protection Commission in connection with behavioural analysis and targeted advertising. The inquiry into LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company was launched by the DPC, in its role as the lead supervisory authority for LinkedIn, f

A new independent body for resolving disputes on social media platforms has arrived in Dublin with the help of Taylor Wessing Ireland. The Appeals Centre Europe has been certified by Coimisiún na Meán as an out-of-court dispute settlement (ODS) body under Article 21 of the EU Digital S

TikTok is facing a fresh lawsuit in the US over the video-sharing platform's alleged harm to children's mental health and well-being. A coalition of 13 states and Washington, D.C., co-led by California and New York, has filed separate enforcement actions against TitTok for alleged violations of stat