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
Ms Niamh Sweeney:
That does not mean members' pages are monitored. If Deputy Dooley is reported to us for violating for hate speech, we want to ensure that the reviewer who arrived at that decision is correct because the Deputy is a public figure representing people. We are often accused of left-wing bias and right-wing bias and we are often accused of both on the same day. We want to make sure that if the account holder is a public figure and the content is a public speech, we are getting the decision right but that does not mean there is a different standard for Deputy Dooley than there is for Niamh Sweeney. It will be the same outcome either way.
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