# Social Media
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Last year
2023
Data Protection Commission
TikTok fined €345 million by Ireland's data watchdog over processing of children’s data
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22.3k
Sep 15th 2023, 1:11 PM
FACTCHECK
Debunked: The Canadian government hasn't banned the British outlet GB News
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Sep 6th 2023, 1:39 PM
Digital Services Act
The European Union's tough new laws on social media content have officially come into force
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Aug 25th 2023, 1:19 PM
x
X's subscription service, formerly Twitter Blue, now allows users to hide their blue ticks
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Aug 3rd 2023, 7:26 AM
Social Media
Elon Musk says Twitter is losing cash due to heavy debt and drop in advertising
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Jul 16th 2023, 12:30 PM
Voices
Therapist: Don't let the social media feed of others' perfect holidays get you down
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Jul 15th 2023, 7:00 AM
Online Safety
Coimisiún na Meán: Ireland's new watchdog on using 'teeth' to take on social media giants
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Jun 20th 2023, 5:13 PM
Reddit
Explained: Why have thousands of Reddit forums gone dark and what does AI have to do with it?
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Jun 16th 2023, 1:34 PM
LA
17-year-old boy falls to his death while climbing Los Angeles bridge for ‘social media broadcast’
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May 25th 2023, 9:58 AM
Social Media
TikTok files lawsuit to stop ban in US state of Montana
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May 22nd 2023, 10:17 PM
Voices
Eoghan Cleary: My teenage students understand the difference between gender and sex
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Apr 28th 2023, 4:00 PM
Social Media
Twitter, TikTok and Instagram to face much stricter content rules in EU
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Apr 25th 2023, 3:33 PM
Voices
Extract: 'Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover shows we badly need a new future for social media'
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Apr 21st 2023, 6:30 PM
Cyber Security
National Cyber Security Centre tells Government departments to avoid TikTok on official devices
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Apr 21st 2023, 1:59 PM
Social Media
Twitter changes: 'Govt-funded' labels dropped as Musk admits paying for some celeb blue ticks
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Apr 21st 2023, 8:45 AM
Social Media
Facebook parent company Meta and TikTok decline invite to Oireachtas committee
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Apr 12th 2023, 5:52 PM
Data Protection
TikTok fined £12.7 million in UK after it ‘did not do enough’ to keep under-13s off platform
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Apr 4th 2023, 12:00 PM
tusla
Tusla contacted social media platforms several times last year over online abuse towards staff
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Mar 26th 2023, 9:30 AM
Ticking clock
France becomes latest country to ban TikTok from public employee work phones
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Mar 24th 2023, 1:54 PM
Social Media
TikTok chief faces off with US lawmakers as ban looms
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Mar 23rd 2023, 7:51 PM
Social Media
Taoiseach says Govt seeking expert advice on TikTok after UK bans app on work devices
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Mar 16th 2023, 5:10 PM
Dungarvan
Gardaí investigating alleged Waterford assault arrest woman for allegedly making false statement
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Mar 15th 2023, 12:17 PM
Voices
Irish drag artist: 'Following the music awards last week, I received a wave of online abuse'
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Mar 14th 2023, 7:30 PM
Voices
Opinion: 'Phones have become a battleground for parenting in the age of social media'
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Mar 11th 2023, 8:00 PM
Social Media
Vast majority of LGBTQ+ young people exposed to 'dramatic increase' in hateful content online
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8.9k
Mar 6th 2023, 6:30 AM
Your Say
Poll: Have you ever bought anything because an 'influencer' posted about it?
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23.1k
Mar 1st 2023, 10:59 AM
Social Media
Artificial intelligence to be used to ensure influencers comply with advertising code
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6.8k
Mar 1st 2023, 10:42 AM
tiktok
Canada bans TikTok on government phones and devices over data protection worries
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Feb 27th 2023, 9:44 PM
Misinformation
Social media companies aren't doing enough to remove misinformation about migrants, Harris says
6.7k
Feb 24th 2023, 12:04 PM
Data Protection
European Commission and Council bans staff from using TikTok on official devices
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Feb 23rd 2023, 6:45 PM
nicola bulley
Social media has 'distracted significantly' in Nicola Bulley investigation, say police
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20.5k
Feb 15th 2023, 2:18 PM
Bavaria
German woman alleged to have killed a lookalike she found on social media to fake her own death
16.0k
Jan 31st 2023, 12:40 PM
FACTCHECK
Debunked: London Police are not criminally investigating COVID-19 vaccines
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Jan 26th 2023, 1:51 PM
Voices
Therapist: How do we challenge toxic masculinity and its appeal to impressionable young men?
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31.8k
Updated
Jan 22nd 2023, 3:00 PM
Human Trafficking
Andrew Tate due in Romanian court to appeal against continued detention
14.2k
Jan 10th 2023, 8:55 AM
All time
Artem Lobov
Injunction judgement reserved over allegedly defamatory social media posts by Conor McGregor
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Dec 22nd 2022, 2:45 PM