Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 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)
Mr. Ronan Costello:
I would actually go back to something that was said towards the start of this session around how much engagement must content be the subject of before it has to be reported to us. How is content amplified on the platform? How is it surfaced on the platform? These are things we are trying to address specifically with machine learning and more proactive measures such that we are prioritising and up-voting or up-ranking, if you want to call it that, the constructive and civil discourse on Twitter and de-amplifing or down-ranking the harmful, toxic and unhealthy engagement.
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