Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, Truth and Democracy: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Art O'Leary:

We used our individual responsibility because speed was of the essence. Mr. Callan surfaced this video at 10.30 p.m. and then we had an online meeting with the senior team and decided to push the button to use our whitelist with Meta to ask it to take it down. We did that just before midnight. By the time anybody got up in the morning, the account had been suspended. The system in that case worked, but there were remnants of the video. There were legacy videos all over the web, which took days-----

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