Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion

Photo of Christopher O'SullivanChristopher O'Sullivan (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In terms of trying to find a solution to this, Meta owns WhatsApp, and a number of weeks ago when this incident kicked off, we know and are all aware of what happened. I read the WhatsApp messages and heard the voice notes calling for immigrants to be killed. We have heard them. I am not sure if Mr. Ó Broin heard them but I certainly did. Would Mr. Ó Broin agree there was a failure to curb this? That is serious incitement to hate. It was out there and it spread like wildfire before anything was done. What is Meta going to do to stop that happening in the future?

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