Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We need to employ the equivalent of 20 Secretaries General.

Ms Haugen spoke of how Facebook rewards hate and effectively promotes posts where people are trashing each other and fighting each other back and forth because that drives engagement and advertising. From a political point of view and, in particular, from the point of view of the political system in Ireland, where we have parties that are prepared to fan the hate and distort facts, is Ms Haugen confident that the rewarding of such hate still continues? She mentioned the shiny glass offices of Facebook in Dublin. Is Facebook following at a high level the fallout from rewarding such actions and how, through the promotion of this, it could change the course of future general elections, even in small countries such as Ireland?