Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail)
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I appreciate it. I will be honest with X and say that I have at least been somewhat impressed by the efforts on behalf of TikTok and Meta but I have not been on the part of X. I raised this at the media committee before, that is, the fact it is getting rid of human content moderation. It is a really serious problem. The model that recommendations are driven by likes and shares is a serious problem. It needs to change its recommender or algorithm system. Other platforms do but in particular X does. I talk to school groups and youth groups and ask them about the content they see. The platform they express the greatest concern about is X. They tell me what they see on X and the content is far more gratuitous, far more violent and far more sexual than that of other platforms. One sees far more trolls and bots and misinformation and disinformation on X. Its AI model is not picking it up. Whatever about not picking it up for the wider population, not picking it up for children and teenagers is really dangerous. What I am asking is whether the witnesses accept it is a serious problem for its platform, more so than for any of the others. What action is it taking?