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
Mr. Dualta ? Broin:
I am sorry to cut across the Deputy. We have taken steps to reduce virilaty, for example. One of the early things we learned with WhatsApp was that virality was a significant problem. Messages were being shared with thousands upon thousands of groups. Therefore, we reduced the number of groups with which people could share messages. We reduced the number of times that content could be forwarded. We added a feature whereby people could click out of WhatsApp to establish whether a story is true or not by searching on a search engine. There are things we are doing, Deputy.
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