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Lawmaker reported allegations over moderation and rightwing content on social media platform

Antoinette Cunningham says content posted by Andrew McGovern was ‘filled with hate, disinformation, offensive content, lies’

Labour Court sets aside three days for hearing

When Elon Musk bought the former Twitter, it was heavily reliant on ads from blue-chip companies

Social network to proactively verify authentic notable accounts, adding check mark next to their names

The big ticket deals were derided at the time, but the apps are now two of the most important parts of Meta’s business

Martin cites damage to ‘significant sector’ in Republic if union should impose levies as retaliation

Data Protection Commission to investigate X over AI model training

March 30th-April 4th: including Twitter: Breaking the Bird, Cheap European Homes, Austin, and Dying for Sex

Combined company valued at $80 billion, businessman announces

Two books ask important questions about how our attention is manipulated and monetised

Musk frequently shares or highlights posts complaining about immigration into Ireland by Michael O’Keeffe, one of a number of Irish people to have grabbed the world’s richest man’s attention

Valuation would match price Musk paid for site despite loss of users and advertisers

‘As an American taxpayer I don’t want my dollars going towards this crap,’ Donald Trump’s press secretary told reporters

Regulator alleges businessman’s failure to follow disclosure rules delivered $150m benefit on share purchases

Veteran executive seen as a potential Google CEO must tackle threats from Trump to tech rivals

Elon Musk’s social media network has been a source of ‘disquiet for many years’, says religious group

Twitter International takes issue with new Online Safety Code’s approach to “restricted” video content

Social media site is notably different in tone to X

It is less easy to hate someone with baffling ideas when you know and like them as a person

As people – even Stephen King – flee the platform, discussion of where to move to feels underpinned by a sadness that the kind of virtual space they crave may no longer be possible

Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m

‘It can feel like this is the space where we all put our most toxic part, where the collective black dog lurks’

News outlet cites 'often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform' and says US election 'underlined' its decision

Broadcaster and former MP suing social media platform over labelling his account ‘Russian state-affiliated’

Coimisiún na Meán’s code will affect all video-sharing platforms with EU headquarters in Ireland

Former British MP took action against the social media platform two years ago after it labelled his account ‘Russian state-affiliated media’

Carmakers shares down 40% since Musk bought social media network

So-called ‘slop’ is driving people and advertisers from social media. But platforms are also throttling political content

The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo at Bluesky

Social media giant – now known as X – ordered to pay award of €550,131 to former executive Gary Rooney

Restriction to apply between 14 and 16 with age verification technology trial to begin soon, says PM

Trend follows widespread concern about companies appearing next to controversial material

The electric vehicle group’s founder is more likely to be in the news these days for his hard-right ramblings than for EVs

Plus: Pizza man Brian MacGoey buys an upper-crust pad, Google eyes Boland’s Mills merch, and Young Fine Gael in a flap about proposed social media ban

Indictment of Telegram founder Pavel Durov raises the stakes in evolving debate over responsibility for online content

Internet providers in Brazil will be told to block social media platform as Musk misses deadline to appoint legal representative in the country

Is the combative entrepreneur fanning the flames of far-right politics or is he just ‘an angry man screaming into a hurricane’?

Shifting back to X may may political sense, but it won’t help Trump Media’s shareholders

The billionaire’s actions undermines the contention that social media companies provide a value-neutral servic