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. Barry Walsh:

From our perspective, threats of nation states and whatever else are not talked about. With disinformation, the more plausible attack is one where there is a link for somebody to click on, and individuals are more likely to engage with that. That is a form of disinformation, in that somebody believes that they are going to click on something legitimate. That then is the source, in a lot of cases, of large-scale ransomware and large-scale cyberattacks. That is probably how it feeds into the cyber landscape. We work very closely with the National Cyber Security Centre in terms of its remit and our remit. It is more in that area that we would deal with it on a frequent basis.

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