Social Media

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

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