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Stories related to social media firm X, formerly known as Twitter

Culture wars have come for Dublin’s Winter Lights festival

Posts on X are channelling rage at the wokerati accused of being out to ban Christmas

Flat Earth by Anika Jade Levy: Artful portrait of youthfulness and beauty as women’s only sources of power

The author’s bleak debut novel critiques the commodification of youth and femininity in the US

EU fines Elon Musk’s X €120m for transparency violations

Penalty under the Digital Services Act risks escalating tensions with US government

TikTok and LinkedIn under investigation by Coimisiún na Meán

Concerns raised if platforms allow people to report suspected child sexual abuse material anonymously as required by law

X’s new user-location feature finds Maga accounts based in Thailand, Nigeria and Bangladesh

Online sleuths found users posting about US politics in various countries, prompting scrutiny over accounts

Ireland can’t credibly regulate AI while also living off Big Tech’s taxes

We missed the chance to shape social media before it shaped us – with AI there will be no second bite of the cherry

Government department fights move to clamp down on online fraud

Enterprise wary of upsetting social media giants by asked them to verify promoters of investment products on their platforms

ChatGPT, Spotify and X among websites down after outage at network firm Cloudflare

Tens of thousands of internet users locked out of websites due to internal server error

At Least It Looks Good from Space by Carl Kinsella: Between comedy and calamity

Kinsella proves a sharp satirist and shrewd observer of the minutiae of Irish life in this collection of essays

Coimisiún na Meán begins investigation into the social media platform X

Move stems from concerns over social network’s compliance with internal complaint handling system legislation

EU launches ‘Democracy Shield’ to fight disinformation and interference online

Michael McGrath says initiative aims to safeguard fairness of elections and counter foreign information manipulation

India accused of ‘state terrorism’ after suicide bombing kills at least 12 in Pakistan

Islamabad attack comes a day after a car explosion in New Delhi that PM Narendra Modi blamed on unnamed ‘conspirators’

Would a male pundit ever be described as ‘the Fred West of football commentary’?

Women soccer commentators still regular targets for prejudice and misogyny

‘Absolute violence and worse is the only thing that should happen’: How social media drove the Citywest riots

Far-right agitators, retweeted by prominent international figures including billionaire Elon Musk, used social media networks to foment anger

Social media platforms need to be ‘accountable’ for scam adverts, PayPal says

Payments giant backs Government proposal to crack down on ads linked to fraud schemes

Carl Kinsella on living with OCD: ‘It’s like having a puppet regime installed in your head’

The columnist and author on relating more to Generation X than his own age group, taking extended breaks from everyday life, and his existential dread of tech billionaires

Threads messaging to be rolled out in Ireland over ‘next few days’, says Meta

Function was launched in the US in July

Connolly keepie-uppies, Humphreys’s ‘quality videos’: The presidential social media battle

In online battle for support, Catherine Connolly is beating Heather Humphreys

Elon Musk hit by exodus of senior staff over burnout and politics

Churn at Tesla and xAI comes amid disillusionment with billionaire’s activism, strategic pivots and mass lay-offs

Jim Gavin won’t be the last victim of a smear campaign. When will platforms act?

Allegations about the presidential candidate received thousands of comments and nearly a million views, as platforms did little to stop the spread

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