Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 August 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion

12:00 pm

Photo of Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Does Facebook have a specific mechanism to try to prevent that happening? Ms Sweeney stated that there is a general policy to the effect that anyone under the age of 13 years is not allowed to have a Facebook account, but she also outlined how flimsy are the measures to prevent that. It is anything but 100% proof.

My question specifically relates to data on children. As anyone who has ever worked in advertising knows, the first rule of advertising is to get money out of adults through their children. Is there a specific mechanism to do that?

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