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 have seen a lot of attempts to categorise in a scientific way different ways to present truthful or untruthful information and it is very difficult: they overlap, they do not overlap, the context changes and suddenly there is a new category of information. I would push back a little back and say I think that malinformation is still a kind of mis- or disinformation and, as such, it could get caught as a systemic risk issue under the Digital Services Act. The more sophisticated and distant you go from illegal content, the harder it is to make those calls and trying to always maintain that balance of freedom of expression.

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