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
Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:
We have concerns about all of them, though not the same concerns about each of them. We have concerns, in different ways, about their obligations to make it easy to report illegal content, the timeliness and accuracy that they respond to this, whether they are open about the internal review processes and that whole end-to-end process. There are concerns around how they operate their recommender systems and whether they are properly protecting the interests of children. As we heard from An Garda Síochána, they all have terms and conditions that relate to disinformation and misinformation around what people should not put up and they have an obligation to properly apply those terms and conditions. We have some concerns about whether they are properly doing so. We are in the initial stages of assessment but together with the European Commission, we will start taking action to achieve improvements.
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