Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 May 2021

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Tijana Milosevic:

With respect to children, I want to add the importance of opening up the data and opening up the mechanisms or systems of moderation that companies have in place to evaluation by children. What we are lacking currently, and this has been my point for a long time, is an understanding of the impact and effectiveness of how moderation affects children, so we need to embed their own feedback into the design and development of these moderation systems. Currently, a platform may say that, proactively, it is able to detect a certain amount of content, for example, bullying content, without it being reported first by children. However, that does not mean much to us without sufficient context as to how much bullying there is overall, what the platform has done with this and whether children have actually been satisfied with the initiatives the platform has taken with that content. In order to evaluate that, as Dr. Culloty pointed out, we should have access to data but also greater understanding of what these numbers actually mean.

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