Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Ms Haugen has been involved with building social media platforms. There is an analogy with the construction industry. Thirty years ago in Ireland and internationally, construction sites were very dangerous places to work. Workers were killed and maimed and as a result of the development of legislation, health and safety regulation and particularly the development of tort law and significant compensation that has been paid to workers, it became very clear very quickly to construction companies that safer workplaces were cheaper to operate than unsafe workplaces. Would the taking of direct mass court claims for compensation against all social media companies involved with disseminating damaging information have an effect in changing behaviour within Facebook and the other similar companies?