Réada Cronin (Kildare North, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I had a couple of questions for her. Turning to Dr. Culloty, in the last week we have been talking about disinformation. We had the case of the editorial process in The Irish Times being breached by an artificial intelligence, AI, article. Was Dr. Culloty surprised by that happening? If we leave the AI aspect out of this, there is a sense of standards being involved as well. I say this because we would expect the paper of record, which is how we would refer to The Irish Timeshere, to have better standards in the context of the risk of disinformation.

I missed the witnesses giving their opening statements, but I was burning the midnight oil reading the copies supplied last night. It is stated that "it is important to avoid assuming a cause-and-effect relationship between exposure to disinformation and public attitudes". This is interesting. If she can, will Dr. Culloty please talk about this point in respect of the hate speech legislation going through the Seanad now?