Irish Quakers join ‘Twitter eXodus’, abandoning social network over misinformation and harmful content
Elon Musk’s social media network has been a source of ‘disquiet for many years’, says religious group
Elon Musk’s X accuses Ireland’s media watchdog of ‘regulatory overreach’
Twitter International takes issue with new Online Safety Code’s approach to “restricted” video content
Forget Bluesky and pre-Musk Twitter. Friendship is the only true antidote to polarisation
It is less easy to hate someone with baffling ideas when you know and like them as a person
Social media taps into a dark human need to be mean to other people
As people – even Stephen King – flee the platform, discussion of where to move to feels underpinned by a sadness that the kind of virtual space they crave may no longer be possible
Bluesky is starting to surge amid upheaval in the social media world
Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m
Sport Twitter, now X, deplorable, compelling and mindless ... but still, it’s hard to say goodbye
‘It can feel like this is the space where we all put our most toxic part, where the collective black dog lurks’
The Guardian leaves X, calling it a ‘toxic media platform’
News outlet cites 'often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform' and says US election 'underlined' its decision
High Court gives X six weeks to file defence to George Galloway’s defamation claim
Broadcaster and former MP suing social media platform over labelling his account ‘Russian state-affiliated’
New online safety code to protect children on social platforms including Facebook, YouTube and TikTok
Coimisiún na Meán’s code will affect all video-sharing platforms with EU headquarters in Ireland
George Galloway’s legal team to ask X to file defamation defence in High Court
Former British MP took action against the social media platform two years ago after it labelled his account ‘Russian state-affiliated media’
Is Twitter to blame for Tesla’s troubles?
Carmakers shares down 40% since Musk bought social media network
The silence of the ‘Shinnerbots’: How social media lost political credibility
So-called ‘slop’ is driving people and advertisers from social media. But platforms are also throttling political content
As X declines, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue
The great migration from Elon Musk’s X has seen users, especially progressives, retreat into one particular silo at Bluesky
Twitter appeals WRC record payout ruling for unfair dismissal
Social media giant – now known as X – ordered to pay award of €550,131 to former executive Gary Rooney
Australia proposes legal minimum age for children to access social media
Restriction to apply between 14 and 16 with age verification technology trial to begin soon, says PM
Advertisers threaten to cut spending on Elon Musk’s X in record numbers
Trend follows widespread concern about companies appearing next to controversial material
Tesla’s brand takes another hit amid Musk controversies
The electric vehicle group’s founder is more likely to be in the news these days for his hard-right ramblings than for EVs
Mean to the fiddler: Band in unfair sacking case had more than €376,000 in earnings
Plus: Pizza man Brian MacGoey buys an upper-crust pad, Google eyes Boland’s Mills merch, and Young Fine Gael in a flap about proposed social media ban
Can tech executives be held responsible for what happens on their platforms?
Indictment of Telegram founder Pavel Durov raises the stakes in evolving debate over responsibility for online content
Brazilian court orders ‘total suspension’ of X as row with Elon Musk deepens
Internet providers in Brazil will be told to block social media platform as Musk misses deadline to appoint legal representative in the country
Who’s afraid of X owner Elon Musk?
Is the combative entrepreneur fanning the flames of far-right politics or is he just ‘an angry man screaming into a hurricane’?
Trump ditches Truth Social investors for Elon Musk and X
Shifting back to X may may political sense, but it won’t help Trump Media’s shareholders
The Irish Times view on Elon Musk and the regulators: more conflict ahead
The billionaire’s actions undermines the contention that social media companies provide a value-neutral servic
Ireland has vowed to get tough on social media platforms - what are the options?
Taoiseach to convene meeting of State agencies and other stakeholders as concerns about online threats and inflammatory content escalate
Twitter ordered to pay record €550,000 to senior executive in Ireland
Record WRC award after Twitter offered €22,834 severance to senior Irish Twitter staffer who was deemed by company to have resigned
Why I no longer crave a Tesla
Elon Musk’s antics are turning off the most obvious customers for his cars
Advertising coalition shuts down after Musk’s X sues
Global Alliance for Responsible Media said it does not have resources to fight suit and continue operating
X stopped using EU user data to train its AI tool, DPC says
Social network agreed to ‘suspend its processing of the personal data’, Data Protection Commission says
Musk’s X sues group over ad boycott that cost billions
Outcry over unchecked antisemitic content and commentary on X sparked many big advertisers to pull ads from the platform
Irish watchdog takes court action against Twitter over AI user data concerns
Data Protection Commission focuses on company’s use of user data to train its Grok enhanced search tool
Tommy Robinson and Tristan Tate are among overseas supporters of Irish anti-immigration activists
‘Professional’ protesters at recent anti-immigration events used tactics popular among far right in EU and US, security sources say
Show me ‘citizen journalism’ and I’ll show you a rat’s nest of some of the most noxious people around
What began as the high idealism of Arab Spring-style community reporting has soured into the preserve of right-wing provocateurs
‘The more passively you use Twitter, the more detrimental effects you have on your wellbeing’
Logging on to X/Twitter is likely to exacerbate feelings of loneliness, boredom, outrage and political polarisation, researchers at the University of Toronto found
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