Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will put the same question to Dr. Bickert. She has been focus of all the questioning because Facebook is probably the most toxic political platform. Our Georgian colleague invited her to visit Georgia. I would invite her to visit my Facebook page and see the nature of the commentary that is increasingly prevalent on the platform. It is not a community, it is war. For whatever reason, the algorithmic model, not just in recent advertising but in the 95% of other organic content, is leading towards political dialogue which is abusive. I have yet to meet a politician who does not think that is what is happening. To refer to the question Mr. Balsilli put, it is the business model, not just in respect of political advertising but the whole organic commentary model that is leading to political discourse which is not community, it is hate speech and abusive. It tends towards that. It is the experience of every politician I have met. Are we all wrong?