Ms Frances Haugen:

My strong belief is that the reason Europe is so much further along with things like the Digital Services Act than, say, the United States is that Facebook intentionally invested overwhelmingly in safety budget in only the United States in order that we would not notice how toxic it was for the rest of the world. Ireland holds a profound responsibility. It does not matter how good the Digital Services Act ends up being. If all of that regulatory implementation happens only in Ireland, and Ireland under-invests in that regulator, if they are not actually tough and do not hold these firms to the letter of the law, there is basically no last line of defence. With the GDPR, we saw that the Data Protection Commission in Ireland struggled to keep up and 98% of cases that have been brought have not been resolved. If we cannot find a robust way to implement the Digital Services Act, I do not know who is going to speak for people like the Rohingya or what will be the next Ethiopia. Right now, there is another ethnic conflict that is unfolding that has been driven by Facebook. I strongly hope the Irish people can either stand in solidarity and have a joint European enforcement or can adequately fund a robust and tough implementer to keep the people of the world safe.