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:
The way I think about this underlines a sort of call to action by us, which is the need for people to report when they see illegal content online or content that they think is against terms and conditions. That would then allow us to gather information on how the platforms are actually dealing with it, which then allows us to see patterns in what they are getting right and what they are not getting right. For example, I talked a little bit about the Article 16 work we are doing at the moment on the notice-and-action mechanism and how easy it is to use. We are looking at ten platforms. The reason we decided to do that piece of work was because there was a pattern in the large number of complaints coming in saying that this is really not easy to use and this is not something that is working well at the platform, so we decided to look more closely at it. This is the way we get at that kind of issue.
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