Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht
Future of Public Service Broadcasting and Impact of Covid-19 on the Media Sector: Discussion
Mr. John Purcell:
We would be well up for participating with partners in promoting digital literacy and so on but that particular task should rest with the people who are disseminating the digital inaccuracy and perhaps the people who are making the millions and billions from the misinformation and the fake news and scraping people's data. They should be called to account for that. We pride ourselves on the trust in which radio, television and newspapers are held but there is a crisis in the media, which has been largely brought about by the disruption caused previously by the digital players where information can be scraped, abused and so on but which has now been accelerated by the pandemic. To answer the Senator's question, that particular question should rest not too far from here in some of the large companies.
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