Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 May 2022
Joint Committee On Health
Eating Disorders: Bodywhys
Ms Jacinta Hastings:
There is the new digital and media Bill that came in around ensuring safety with media. An area we would be very concerned about and engaged in, which I mentioned to Deputy Gino Kenny, is the particular platforms that target young people. I am aware mobile phones are a different platform but we wanted to engage in the platforms we felt already had a presence and already had activity that could be addressed. Facebook, or Meta as it is now, TikTok and Instagram were open to engagement because they wanted to ensure the safety of their users. It was very much around trying to limit targeted imagery and also limit targeting of advertising.
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