Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Greene. The other thing which is interesting and which Ms Greene touched upon there is this issue of algorithms and how they are used, exactly who is writing them and what, I suppose, they are seeking to do. This is a bugbear, particularly in social media with regard to its management. I am struggling to understand where, in all of this potential legislation, activity is going to focus on that, because that is a dynamic and changing environment every day where platforms are adjusting algorithms the whole time. It is the trend as to where they are going and what they are trying to circulate, particularly in respect of the dissemination of information and of a particular narrative, which we see.

There is an interesting case, of which Ms Greene probably knows this morning, of the settlement of Fox News and Dominion Voting Systems in the United States.

It raises the issue. The narrative has been running through social media for more than a year. Would this legislation have been able to interdict some of the activity in question if, let us say, it was pointed at the European model in terms of where management is going?