Results 341-360 of 1,888 for speaker:Sharon Keogan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: If I have accused someone of political bias, I am asking Mr. Godfrey what protocols are in place to ensure that there is no political bias?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: I am asking-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: If you had let me finish I could get the comment but you obviously do not want me to do that, so I will-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: I will withdraw that comment as a mark of respect for you but I am asking the commission what protocols are in place so that we can trust its independence to ensure there no political bias among its staff? What background checks are done to safeguard the recruitment process against such biases? Mr. Barry Andrews MEP stated that the purpose of the DSA is censorship. Given that the DSA was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: It is already noted.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: Unfortunately, I cannot bring it up. I have it here in my document but I have not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: If I can be allowed to go upstairs, because there is no Internet in this room as members know. I would read out the quote; I had the previous quote that you did not want me to read out. Now you want this quote-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: This is absolutely unbelievable. The censorship within this room is unbelievable. I have quotes here available from another person who said something and you have censored that. Now you are telling me that Mr. Barry Andrews did not say what he said.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: Can the Commission-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: Fact checking is important and has been hijacked by the left. What steps has the commission has taken to ensure that the people doing the fact checking are not biased and that there is no partisanship and ideological motivation in their role? How can we trust an organisation if certain individuals or companies that have played a role before are to be guardians of factual information when...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: I thank Mr. Godfrey.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: The commission is funded by the Department of-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: Ms Pollock said there were 261 cases. Without divulging-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: -----individual cases, would it be okay to give an example of the type of cases the commission is dealing with about which people have been sending it complaints?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: Do some of those 261 cases concern the referendums that recently took place in Ireland?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: Any or many? There is a difference.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: You might have had some, possibly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: Yes. It was about whether the commission would present some examples of what it considers to be misinformation and disinformation. While I am aware the commission does not have the power to remove misinformation or disinformation, will it be involved in media literacy programmes and calling out harmful or incorrect information?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: I am well aware of that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)
Sharon Keogan: On politically biased or partisan staffers, what is the recruitment process around that and what safeguards are put in place by the commission? Was that answered?