Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 June 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)
Ms Orla Twomey:
On the Senator’s question on photo editing, I am aware of the potential developments in France. One of the challenges we need to be aware of is that photo editing in all cases is not necessarily harmful nor misleading; it depends on context. It is something we will examine. For example, if someone has a photograph of themselves on a sunny day but there is a cloud they do not like and they remove it, is that misleading even if it is an ad? Will it mislead somebody to buy food or whatever the product may be? It is about what the photo editing is trying to do. Is it trying to exploit a lack of knowledge among the consumers who are seeing it?
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