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Social media app that feels a lot like early Twitter has attracted millions of new users this month and, so far, is not annoying like Threads

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’

X marks the exit door for the news title, which has announced it will no longer post on Elon Musk’s platform

Elon Musk should know that human social structures are more fluid than even the most complex of animal hierarchies

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

Coimisiún na Meán said that the three companies would have to take specific measures to protect their services from being used for the dissemination of terrorist content

The marketing communications group grew its net profit to more than €4m last year and has expanded again in 2024

Many gardaí still calling for additional resources for open-source intelligence, particularly in investigations into online child sexual abuse

Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and Mary Lou McDonald take message directly to young voters on X, Instagram and TikTok

Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisis

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

Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code is as much about what it doesn’t do as what it does

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 arrest of the deeply private Russia tech titan has put the spotlight on illegal activity on Telegram, a preferred tool of the Irish far right. But Durov insists he is a defender of free speech

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

Any claim that anyone is to be a trillionaire any time soon is not credible

An initial information-gathering process by Coimisiún na Meán into how social media platforms deal with illegal online content could ultimately be expanded into an investigation or enforcement action

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

As polls tighten, vice president and Donald Trump will come face to face for the first time in their campaigns for White House

Trend follows widespread concern about companies appearing next to controversial material

Issue centred on use of personal data to train AI systems

The Revelation of Ireland 1995-2020 dissects Irish life over 25 years, with the benefit of hindsight and the opening up of archives

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

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

Judge Alexandre de Moraes says moves against platform are part of fight to protect democracy from misinformation and hateful content

Four rules for exiting the site formerly known as Twitter

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

Owning a media lodestar can be the ultimate ego trip as Elon Musk demonstrated with his travesty of an ‘interview’ with Donald Trump

There are powerful tools to counter the amplification of extreme material. We just need to use them

Taoiseach to convene meeting of State agencies and other stakeholders as concerns about online threats and inflammatory content escalate

Record WRC award after Twitter offered €22,834 severance to senior Irish Twitter staffer who was deemed by company to have resigned

Discussion on X hit by technical issues which platform’s owner blamed on a ‘massive’ cyberattack

The eejits who get caught have been hooked by algorithms engineered by social media companies