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:

The comment is that our intention is to apply our community standards objectively and fairly regardless of what the content is. Speaking generally, because I do not want to speak about the Israel or Gaza conflict in particular, we see this from both sides in conflicts. We will get complaints of this nature from both sides in a conflict.

There are regulators now in place to ensure we are applying our community standards objectively and fairly and with equity across the board, and not just the European Commission but Coimisiún na Meán here as well. It is our intention to apply them fairly and with equal treatment to everyone but the regulators are there to oversee that. I will make a general point. Part of the reason we set up the oversight board in 2019 was that we realised that, in certain instances, it should not be left to platforms like ours alone to make a decision on what should or should not remain on the platform. That is an additional layer of oversight we have, independent of the regulatory structures that are now set up in the EU.

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