Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail)
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I do appreciate the point Ms Moss is making. My concern frequently relates to a phrase being used today by the Australian eSafety Commissioner, which is that online content once seen cannot be unseen. I appreciate there may be hundreds of videos about camogie or interior design, but the issue is the dangerous material that people have seen. All present will be very familiar with the work of the eSafety Commissioner on the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act. In many ways, we wanted the position of the online safety commissioner here to be based upon the model. Her office today issued formal notices to Facebook and X over the misinformation or disinformation that applied to some of the riots and trouble that has been going on in Sydney in recent days. It does not appear that the AI picked up on some of this but what was highlighted included extreme and gratuitous violent material that was available to be viewed by teenagers. Some of this disinformation and misinformation originated from Ireland and Irish X accounts and they are currently being shown on Australian television.

I will put this point to Meta and X. I get that AI is picking up a lot of the misinformation and disinformation and I get that there is human content moderation. Clearly, however, there are concerns that teenagers and the wider population are being exposed to serious misinformation and disinformation, including, in the words of the eSafety Commissioner, "extreme and gratuitous violent material". There was a specific instance of that today. These are real-life examples. No matter what Meta and X are doing, they are not succeeding. I ask Mr. Ó Broin or Mr. Miles to provide Meta's perspective on this issue.