Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Commissioner spoke about media freedom and hate speech. On the European Commission and European Union level, they are dealing with the tech firms, such as Facebook and Twitter. At this time, we are dealing with a huge amount of unchecked conspiracy theories and other such pieces of information that are thrown up without any particular checking. We are talking about people who are vilely attacked online. There are people who end up down a rabbit hole because, if they keep liking certain materials on a social platform, they keep getting fed it. This leads to some of the situations we have here. What initiatives does the European Commission want to use to deal with this issue? Online publication is absolutely uncontrolled at this time. Obviously, there is a responsibility on tech firms to do something about this.