Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 April 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion
2:00 pm
Mr. Joel Kaplan:
My apologies for not getting to that one. My understanding is that our lawyers objected to a certain characterisation that The Guardian reporters were pursuing and it was with respect to a particular characterisation that they made that threat, not with respect to whether it should publish an article at all.