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

I am hugely encouraged by the fact Ms Haugen is focusing on systemic change rather than content moderation or content censorship because that is something that would concern me deeply. Getting under the hood of how social media companies share the most incendiary content to further create engagement is a really important perspective. As Ms Haugen stated, this is not about the simplistic lens of just removing damaging content. We tried that, and a couple of items of legislation were proposed in 2015 whereby we sought to make it an offence to annoy people on social media. That is not the direction we need to go.

If Ms Haugen was to recruit the most effective team within the office of our Data Protection Commissioner or in any other office that has a regulatory role on social media, and she mentioned experts in AI and algorithmic development, would behavioural scientists have a role in that? What would be her optimum team to begin bringing about that systemic change that she has spoken so strongly about in the recent past?