Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Arson Attacks: Discussion

Mr. Mark Malone:

We believe in free speech. Free speech is important. It really is important. Amplification is a different thing, and the right to be amplified by some of the largest companies in the world is a different thing. Being able to pay to do that is a different thing.

With regard to the money to be made, it is very clear that there are individuals who have money to be made. That is kind of difficult to challenge, or to understand the individual flows to particular influencers. It creates a dynamic where they have to keep churning out content to earn a living and to make money viably. I share the Deputy's concern, much more generally, around the sort of media infrastructures involving individual citizen journalists. Individual citizen journalists come and go. I think the raising of temperature around the very open hostility towards elected representatives right through to-----

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