Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 February 2022
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen
Annie Hoey (Labour) | Oireachtas source
Ms Haugen mentioned the Rohingya people and the hate speech in Myanmar. She has also referenced the situation in Ethiopia. Could she elaborate? I am interested in whether Facebook Ireland, specifically, could have prevented those situations. How did Facebook Inc. fail to protect these people? If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere else. It is happening in other places. I am interested to hear Ms Haugen’s thoughts on exactly what role we specifically in Ireland had around the atrocity, as well as what we should or could have done with the powers we have, considering that the HQ is here.
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