Dr. Emily Bourke:

Yes, certainly from BeLonG To's perspective in communicating with young people who use our services, the big thing that comes up is around algorithms pushing what was referred to earlier, which is content they do not want to see. Some young people in our services have described quite graphic pieces that have come to them in their feeds - anti-LGBTQ content, which really speaks very negatively to them as people. That is the piece that come up again and again.

Then there are other - we were speaking about this earlier - perhaps less obvious but also insidious potential results. Say I engage with LGBTQ content in my feed and later I am on my phone in front of my parents and an ad pops up, then I am outed or potentially outed. There is this kind of outfiltering of impacts alongside what I am sure the Deputy has experienced herself, which is just bots. The Deputy mentioned that there has been a toxic atmosphere on certain parts of the Internet for a long time but with the bots it is just amplified. It is just comments and streams of hate at a volume that was not necessarily there before.