Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner

Photo of Louise O'ReillyLouise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It was. I do not want to cut across Dr. Evans but I may have made my point badly. The issue is not that the system does not work but rather what triggers the system. I am going to offer an opinion and I want to be very careful in what I say. In some instances, politically motivated complaints are made. Such complaints are not made because the complainants believe the content is disinformation. They may know it is not disinformation and that it is real but they have a political opposition to what is being said, which is what motivates the complaint. The content is then taken down only to be reinstated. My question is not about whether the content gets taken down. It was taken down and Dr. Evans can argue that shows the system working. The content was taken down, the complaint was resolved and it was put back up. That is fair enough but, going back to the start of the process, is there anything that can be done to ensure that, when a person is reviewing a complaint, he or she can spot that political bias and name it for what it is?

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