Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Session 4: International Collaboration

Mr. Amrin Amin:

I understand. I wish to touch on a point on free speech. Earlier, Facebook stated that one of its core values is to protect freedom of expression. As a professor of law, does Professor Woods believe that deliberately deceptive political advertisements paid for by politicians and the use of bots by foreign entities to influence an outcome, as we saw in the Irish abortion referendum, as well as in the US with alleged Russian interference, covered under the concept of freedom of expression? Is it not the case that these things harm our democracy?

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