Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Committee on European Union Affairs

Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán

2:00 am

Dr. John Evans:

I thank Deputy Gogarty. There are a few things in there and I will bring in my two colleagues to help me answer that. On the first question, there is a role for regulation but there is also a role for media literacy. In Ireland, we rank reasonably high on European scales for how media literate our population is. I think we are sixth in Europe. We would not be perceived as a high-risk country but often we are standing in the shoes of a European regulator when we are doing our work under the DSA and that is not the case across Europe. There are some democracies which are more susceptible. I ask Mr. Moroney to explain a bit about foreign information manipulation and interference, FIMI. That is part of the election guidelines and part of the mitigation measures that the platforms are supposed to put in place so he will say a bit about that. He can also say a bit about the fraud and scams piece which the Deputy asked about. Then I ask Mr. Kenny to say a little about the Australian experience and how that is going so far because we are watching that closely and we work with our Australian colleagues quite a bit.

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