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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

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

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

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

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