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Meta to tell politicians that app stores should be responsible for age verification
16 Apr
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Fake ad data Tánaiste obtained from Google through court order being 'forensically analysed'
8 Apr
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Voices
Hate Speech law: 'As legislators, it is our responsibility to draw the line on hate'
Malcolm Byrne
27 Mar
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Brussels
Man who hacked Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s Twitter account sentenced to 150 hours community service
A former parliamentary assistant to Flanagan admitted to sending the post in the early hours of 28 September, 2020.
Updated
25 Mar
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FACTCHECK
Debunked: Chart used to criticise Dublin actually shows ranking for homelessness services
20 Mar
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FAKE NEWS
Bank of Ireland warns of fake articles designed to 'steal customers' money' with crypto scams
15 Mar
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THE MORNING LEAD
Arrested, disgraced, injured: Cryptocurrency scams promote hoax stories about Irish celebrities
Have you seen spam ads appear on your social feeds?
One scam recently came about after a hacking of an Indian politician's Meta account.
The Journal understands the account was compromised by hackers who launched more than 50 ad campaigns.
Celebrity scam ads appear on Facebook and X.com after less than a minute of scrolling through main feeds.
Shane Raymond
10 Mar
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Lawsuit
Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for almost $130 million in unpaid severance
4 Mar
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This year
2024
FACTCHECK
Debunked: The Irish Muslim Council has not put up stickers advocating for ‘Sharia Law’
27 Feb
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Twitterer
How Elon Musk has courted Ireland's far-right by taking aim at the government's hate speech laws
10 Feb
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behind closed doors
Meta would only meet politicians if Oireachtas hearing was private (but here's what they said anyway)
31 Jan
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Taylor Swift
Why X has moved to block searches for Taylor Swift after an AI-related controversy
29 Jan
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THE MORNING LEAD
Posts targeting migrants remained online during riots despite 5pm plea from online safety tsar
Niamh Hodnett was appointed last year to fight harmful content online.
Niamh Hodnett contacted major social media firms on evening of 23 November to warn about potential for violence.
Posts calling for migrants to be "killed" were shared on social platforms as riots unfolded.
Immigrant Council of Ireland warned about the proliferation of such posts and called for posters to be investigated.
29 Jan
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FACTCHECK
Debunked: Hoax ads featuring Alastair Campbell on the Late Late Show have proliferated on X.com
24 Jan
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Voices
With Silicon Valley 'visionaries', profits are prioritised over true technological progress
Peter Bloom
13 Jan
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Last year
2023
Social Media
Taoiseach and Tánaiste both express concerns over X after report on how it moderates content
24 Dec 2023
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the artist formerly known as twitter
Social media platform X back online after global outage
21 Dec 2023
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disinformation
EU launches probe into Elon Musk's X over disinformation related to 7 October Hamas attack
18 Dec 2023
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X / Twitter
X responds to Justice Minister's claim that it did not engage with gardaí during Dublin riot
5 Dec 2023
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Dublin riot
Twitter did not engage with gardaí when asked to take down 'vile' posts, Justice Minister says
29 Nov 2023
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Twitter
Elon Musk's X sues media non-profit over portrayal of site as full of antisemitism
21 Nov 2023
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FACTCHECK
Major analysis shows how Irish disinformation ecosystem has been 'co-opted by far-right actors'
20 Nov 2023
16.6k
Dropped
IBM pulls ads from X after report says they appeared next to antisemitic posts
17 Nov 2023
8.5k
Twitter
X fails to pay fine in Australia over not detailing plans to combat child sexual abuse content
14 Nov 2023
11.0k
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FACTCHECK
How X, formerly Twitter, is platforming a deluge of misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war
12 Oct 2023
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disinformation
EU warns Musk X spreading 'illegal' disinformation after Hamas attack
10 Oct 2023
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Voices
Parenting: When we were growing up, our parents weren't bombarded by images of perfection
Margaret Lynch
7 Oct 2023
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Social Media
X, formerly known as Twitter, strips headlines from news articles shared by users
5 Oct 2023
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Courts
Senior Irish-based X employee who liked tweets critical of Elon Musk halts disciplinary process
22 Sep 2023
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MUSK AT IT AGAIN
Elon Musk's plans to charge everyone for Twitter send users running for Bluesky
20 Sep 2023
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