Mr. Dualta Ó Broin:

I will go first and then pass over to Ms Rush. We are subject to rules and regulations as it stands. We are here today and, in all of our opening statements, we have said that we are open to further regulation. We have been saying quite publicly since March of this year that we recognise the need to work with governments across the world, globally, nationally, and at EU level, to figure out how, as a society, to deal with harmful content. We have a major role to play in that. I am not saying that it is a societal issue from which we will just stand back. We have a major role to play in it. We will play that role in working with legislators around the world to deal with this issue.

I know the Deputy does not want to go into detail on the particular case involving the car accident. With regard to the Christchurch incident, which he raised, we are doing everything we can to learn from that incident and to ensure that it can never happen again. For example, one of the weaknesses in our systems was that the artificial intelligence, AI, system did not recognise a video being made because the shooter framed it in a first-person view, that is, he had a camera on him.

We are working with the Metropolitan Police in the UK and with the American armed forces. We are inputting their weapons training footage into our AI, which will ensure that type of incident can never happen again. This is a rapidly evolving area and we have rapidly evolving harms on the Internet. We are committed to doing absolutely everything we can to make our platform safe. I do not accept the premise that we profit from these types of incidents being on our platform. It is the opposite. We hear from both our advertisers and our users all the time that they do not want this type of material on our platform. The advertisers do not want their advertising anywhere near this type of content. We are extremely serious about removing it. I will ask Ms Rush to come in on the legal points the Deputy raised.