The Irish Times view on social media regulation: Ireland caught in the middle
As the European home of some of the major tech players, the State has a crucial role in an area where tensions are likely with the US
News, analysis, and comment on Meta-owned social media firm Facebook
Facebook owner fined €251m by Irish data regulator for breaches
Meta Platforms fine tied to 2018 data breach impacting 29m Facebook accounts globally
Meta ordered to take action after Facebook found to be exposed to ‘terrorist content’
Examples of terrorist content can include photos of crime scenes glorifying terrorist acts, or posts or comments which incite, solicit or advocate for the commission of terrorist offences
Facebook parent’s Irish arm pays €900m dividend as profit rises
Social media giant sees turnover near €70bn
Bluesky is starting to surge amid upheaval in the social media world
Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m
Meta fined nearly €800m for breaking EU law over classified ads practices
Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says
Gardaí expand social-media monitoring to combat far-right extremism and serious offending
Many gardaí still calling for additional resources for open-source intelligence, particularly in investigations into online child sexual abuse
I’ve liberated myself from the toxic cycle of wine o’clock
Sobriety may be trendy right now, but for me it’s been a much deeper personal shift
Light touch regulation did not work with banks and won’t work for video sharing platforms like TikTok
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisis
I see my old friend on Facebook. I stare at his page but I don’t say hello
Monk from Tibet planted yew tree in garden, which has been more effective means of staying in touch
Meta tests facial recognition technology to protect celebrities from scams but Ireland not included in system
The company is targeting fraudsters and scammers who use the image of somebody well-known to fool people into clicking on a malicious website
New online safety code to protect children on social platforms including Facebook, YouTube and TikTok
Coimisiún na Meán’s code will affect all video-sharing platforms with EU headquarters in Ireland
Norma Foley’s pouch plan acknowledges that phones cause harm. It may yet see her end up in history books
Plan signals mobile phones – and by extension social media platforms – are detrimental to children. The question now is what the Government will do next
Investors look beyond Nvidia and the magnificent seven
Increasingly confident investors looking beyond tech giants, suggesting reign may be over — for now at least
Facebook owner Meta fined €91m by Irish Data Protection Commission
Social media group inadvertently stored certain passwords of social media users in ‘plaintext’ on its internal systems
Age of influencers: how content creation has become the toughest of dream jobs
‘Influencing’ didn’t exist as a career 20 years ago but it’s now one of the most popular, with ever-younger people aspiring to become the next big thing on social media
‘After a year of horrendous bullying I avoid almost all social media’
As more people question their smartphone use, some are consciously turning their backs on the virtual world in favour of real life
Australia proposes legal minimum age for children to access social media
Restriction to apply between 14 and 16 with age verification technology trial to begin soon, says PM
Meta’s Oversight Board says ‘from the river to the sea’ posts not always hate speech
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp parent company’s oversight body says phrase has multiple meanings and ‘context is crucial’
Social media is destroying young people’s mental health. Why do we keep tiptoeing around this reality?
A ban for under-16s may polarise opinion, but we can’t keep highlighting the teenage mental-health crisis while ignoring the root cause
Using fear to sell AI is a bad idea
Constant warnings about the technology’s power prime early users for disappointment
Woman (53) jailed over ‘blow the mosque up’ Facebook post after Southport riots
‘So-called keyboard warriors’ must take responsibility for language used online, says judge
Taoiseach, here’s how to take action against extreme material online
There are powerful tools to counter the amplification of extreme material. We just need to use them
Denis O’Brien adds over 370 names to defamation case
Businessman pursuing people behind fake and misleading advertisements on Meta social platforms
Markets at the mercy of the not-so-magnificent seven
Outsized influence meant poorly-received results can drag markets down disproportionately
Magnificent seven stocks take a pounding as investors rotate into cheaper companies
Nvidia alone lost over $200bn in market value on Wednesday
Lessons for advertisers on how new rules on Irish-language ads will work
Public bodies must ensure that at least 20% of advertising placed is in the Irish language, and at least 5% of budget must be spent on Irish-language media
Why is almost three-quarters of all internet traffic in Ireland of malicious intent?
In 2022, retailers on ecommerce platform Shopify started to report unusual activity from Ireland
Meta pauses AI plans for Europe after Irish regulator request
Without use of local data planned product would be ‘second-rate experience’, says Facebook owner
Meetings in the metaverse: new tech draws workers to virtual offices
AI assistants, training simulations and data tracking boost developers
The ‘Splinternet’ Election: Campaign was fractured, aggressive, costly and humourless
Politics has always been a performance, but performative violence - abuse as content creation - is something new, at least at the scale that the anecdotal data suggests. We are now in a dangerous era of hybrid online-offline political violence
At least €423,000 spent on online advertising for political parties and candidates in lead-up to polling day
Sinn Féin spent €166,800 with Meta and Google, with Fine Gael’s online advertising costing €75,900 and Fianna Fáil spending €74,900 over three months
Meta wants to use your Facebook and Instagram data to train AI – here’s how to stop it
Follow these steps if you want to object to your data and posts being used
A Googlepocalypse is sweeping the United States – and its devastating effects are on their way to Ireland
Hugh Linehan: The link economy is dying, and with it an entire ecosystem that supported content creation and communication is coming to an end
EU probes Meta over fears of child addiction to social media
Commissioner ‘not convinced’ online giant has done enough to mitigate risks to physical and mental health of young people from Facebook and Instagram
Children’s mental health under attack by the smartphone
Diversity, equity and inclusion programmes are implemented in a spirit of political correctness and woke
Meta’s Dublin docklands office for sale at knockdown price of €35m
Building on East Wall Road being offered to the market on behalf of receivers at a 65 per cent discount to 2018 sale price
Facebook and Instagram pull the plug on charity fundraising
Meta says users in European Economic Area can not raise funds for charity on its platforms beyond June with some restrictions already in place
AI pay-off doubts hang over earnings in big tech
The likely message from the leading companies is: be patient
Emer McLysaght: The ‘cry laughing’ emoji has been my nemesis for as long as I can remember
Emer McLysaght: This tainted emoji has tormented so many for so long. Why then, do I now find myself softening towards it?
Trump Media shares collapse, but remain wildly overvalued
Truth Social is still being valued at $4.5bn or more than 1,000 times sales
Russian court rejects Google’s €45m fine over Ukraine content
Unlike Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Alphabet’s YouTube has not been blocked in Russia
Start-ups: Ignore the figures at your peril
Researchers say entrepreneurs often ignore the early warning signs of failure as they cling to common myths about starting a business
Truth Social valued on virtual hot air, not fundamentals
Donald Trump’s social media network is trading at valuations that make some of the most successful listed businesses in history look pedestrian
Protecting critical subsea cable network vital for security and data
Irish mariner is at the heart of much of today’s subsea cable network but we no longer have the capability to monitor and defend it
TikTok revenues hit $16bn in US where it faces ban
Owner ByteDance is on track to overtake Facebook owner Meta as the world’s largest social media company by sales
New EU rules on digital market are intended to clip wings of big tech companies. Will they work?
The Digital Markets Act takes effect on March 6th. What does it mean for consumers?
Facebook and Instagram users hit by global outage caused by ‘technical issue’
Disruption for hundreds of thousands saw up to 550,000 reports of outages at peak of incident
We are witnessing the death throes of RTÉ. I say this with a heavy heart
Spend some time with younger people and the evidence of dopamine culture is everywhere
Australian government renews Meta fight over news content
Facebook and Instagram owner has said it would no longer pay local media for their material following a recent €120m deal
With Meta paying shareholders a first dividend, has Mark Zuckerberg run out of credible growth strategies?
Meta has just announced its first ever shareholder dividend, perhaps placating investors, but nevertheless the tech giant likely has a difficult time ahead
Social-media firms refused to commit to improving age-verification of users, Minister says
Meta representatives among those to attend roundtable meeting with Government
The magnificent seven stocks are growing apart
Results and share price performance of top stocks has been very different in recent times
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