Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 June 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
State Response to Online Disinformation and Media and Digital Literacy: Discussion
1:30 pm
Ms Martina Chapman:
We can think of this strategy as a first step. This is not something that can be produced and then put on a shelf where it stays in that state. Disinformation will evolve, so the response to it needs to evolve as well. At this stage, we have a number of different legislative levers and between the European Media Freedom Act, the DSA and so on, there is a lot already coming down the line. One of the recommendations will be ongoing oversight of the recommendations. If, out of that, it appears there is a gap, it is at that stage that there would be further recommendations. However, there is quite a lot of legislation in place already, so we need to give that a chance to start to roll out, embed and see what is getting covered. Then it is about whether there are gaps after that.
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