Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

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

Non-court-based Conflict Resolution Mechanisms for Media-related Complaints: Discussion

Mr. Dave O'Connell:

On a more fundamental point, credible sources will always conquer fake news. One of the great advantages of working in local journalism is that when covering elections, we cover the individuals. We know the individuals and deal with them directly as they deal with us. That eliminates the type of data scraping that might be a possibility elsewhere. It is very local. I said earlier that people can contact the editor. All of our local politicians can contact us and we can contact them. It eliminates that possibility to some extent. That is not, however, to say that the threat of the other kind of AI is not something that is on our minds.

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