Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed)
Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I thank the witness. I have a final question. I will start with Facebook. Does Facebook value the type of content it removes depending on the amount of followers the associated user has? Is that a factor in the decision? There was a Channel 4 documentary called "Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network" in 2018 which said that pages posted by an English Nazi were left in place because the user had a lot of followers. As such, there was a lot of revenue to be generated. Is that a factor in Facebook's decision on whether to review and remove posts? Would different rules apply to my posts because I have a lot fewer followers?
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