Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

State Response to Online Disinformation and Media and Digital Literacy: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Ms Edel McGinley:

I will make one last point about the new Appeals Centre Europe. We have some questions about that because this new appeals centre seems to be an attempt for the platforms to self-regulate, in particular Meta. We are confused about this parallel framework that is being set up. We would welcome some clarity about that, as I am sure the committee would as well. We are not convinced there is enough oversight of this by the Government. We are worried about different levels of appeals and that we are again going back to an era of self-regulation. It is something we would be concerned about. We did not have it in our opening statement because it is a rolling issue that was announced in the past week or so.