Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

We will see. In terms of fact-checking, Coimisiún na Meán is not a fact-checker. There is one fact-checking organisation in Ireland - The Journal FactCheck - which is a member of the International Fact-Checking Network, the European Fact-Checking Standards Network and the European Digital Media Observatory. We are not the people who have accredited it but it has accreditation and it will be part of our role to make sure that during elections, the platforms understand The Journal FactCheck is an accredited fact-checker.

In terms of the riots, I will take care in what I have to say but I can tell the committee what our role was and how European Commission was involved. On the day of the stabbings, Coimisiún na Meán became aware of them through media reports around lunchtime. At this time, we had no formal powers and the Digital Services Act, DSA, had not become applicable to us at that point but we had already had engagement with the platforms. We alerted them to the stabbings and said we were concerned about two possible things. One was that very disturbing imagery or videos might be circulated on social media. We did not know whether there would be but we asked the platforms to keep an eye out for that. We also said we were concerned the stabbings might be used as a reason for inciting violence or hatred against members of minority groups. I do not think at that stage we can particularly claim prescience about what was going to happen but we did alert the platforms to that.