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 Cliona Richardson:

The area which concerns us, on which the Commissioner has previously commented, is the increase in right-wing activity that manifests into criminal or potential criminal activity. Again, it depends. There are different areas. There was a separate concern with Covid-19 and a fear factor was being put out through online disinformation. At that stage, we could see the same misinformation messages that were being sent in French and German in France and Germany being sent again, pretending to be from a person someone knows who has said this, etc. That manifests fear. While I do not want to go into it, there have been cases in which people have been prosecuted. There are people who continue to attend protests which veer towards criminal activity. They are all being addressed and investigated.

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