Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 January 2026
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Equality
Safety and Well-being of Children Online: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:
There are investigations now open. On Monday, the European Commission opened an investigation into Grok as a result of recent events. We had worked very closely with the European Commission in gathering information to get to the point where it opened an investigation. Now we are associated with carrying out that investigation. That is one way of holding them to account. Because it is an open investigation, I will not say much more about it. We have opened a number of other investigations into things like how easy it is for people to report and whether it has been made easy enough. The European Commission also has open investigations. We have seen TikTok, for example, wanting to introduce a very addictive service where people would get rewards for using TikTok for a certain length of time every day, building up streaks. That was pulled as a result of regulatory pressure. We are seeing results from the regulation but we certainly have not yet got as far as we need to.
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