Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Dualta Ó Broin:

I thank the Chairman for the question. We were all shocked by the events in Cavan and we extend our sympathies to Mr. Lunney. We have been working with the Quinn Industrial Holdings team for a number of years and it has made a number of reports to us about content. We have removed a significant number of posts from a number of pages.

There is a focus on a particular post. I will not go into the details. When it was reported to us initially, it was reviewed and found not to be violating our community standards. It was then brought back to our attention through the media on 20 September. At that point, it was put into an authenticity check. It was then reviewed and found to be violating our community standards. The post and the page on which it appeared have been removed from the platform.

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