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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
...to explore how these issues are being framed online. For instance, in our most recent research paper, published this morning, we note a continuing focus on migration and a significant amount of discourse around the Israel-Gaza conflict. Most disinformation themes are localised. In the US, migration is tied to the southern border, while in the UK, it is tied to channel crossings. In...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Seán Haughey: ...the top of the agenda, particularly migration, the nature restoration law on which the European Parliament voted yesterday, the European Green Deal and the whole climate change agenda, as well as Israel and Gaza and the remarks of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen following the brutal Hamas attacks, which raised issues. While I suspect that European issues will come to the fore as...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Brendan Howlin: ...impact on the way future democracy works. As an aside, I was taken by Mr. Harte's observation that the antisemitic tropes echoing disinformation narratives are common, as is language questioning Israel's motivations. I ask him to expand on the point in respect of language questioning Israel's motivations. Certainly I question Israel's motivations in what it is doing now. It goes to my...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Mr. Rory Harte: I thank the Deputy. I was furiously scribbling notes and I am sure he will excuse me if I miss a few of his points. I will start with the point on Israel and Gaza. As I stated, there is antisemitic language that draws down from broader narratives we see within disinformation. We do not research those disinformation narratives but, rather, access research databases from...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
...narratives that are coming from databases out there. There is foreign information manipulation and interference, FIMI, from certain countries, whether Russia or other countries, speaking to Israel just being in this for the resources or that it is about killing Gazans or Palestinians and nothing else. This is the language we are taking. As Ms O'Connell stated, we are strictly...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)
Brendan Howlin: The basic question I asked was how that conclusion in respect of Israel's motivations was reached.