Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Stephanie Comey:

It is very much about enabling people to decide where they want to go to find where the correct information might be. It is also a very broad concept. It has technical aspects on how to use media but also democratic ones on how to participate in society via media. It is quite a broad concept.

We continue to do this work with Media Literacy Ireland. Mr. Godfrey mentioned Coimisiún na Meán's current public awareness campaign around the flagging of illegal content and directing users to the platforms to report content they have encountered that is illegal. We are monitoring the success of that campaign in the field. We are still running it so I have no data on it, but it is something we will be happy to share further down the line. We will continue that work of empowering Irish people to find the correct information for what they need to know.

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