The Irish Times view on social media regulation: Ireland caught in the middle
As the European home of some of the major tech players, the State has a crucial role in an area where tensions are likely with the US
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Stories related to social media firm X, formerly known as Twitter
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
New online safety code in the crosshairs as Elon Musk’s X takes media regulator to the High Court
Big tech fears more stringent rules being applied to their online platforms under a series of domestic and EU laws
EU needs to be less ‘polite’ in resisting Russian attempts to sway elections
Worldview: Attacks include sabotage, assassinations, parcel bombs, cyber attacks, electoral interference, social media disinformation campaigns and the testing of military preparedness
Irish company leveraging AI to help brands communicate climate actions responsibly and avoid claims of greenwashing
Marketing platform UnitMode aims to ‘supercharge consumer-powered climate innovation’
Why is an obscure PhD on the politics of smell causing outrage online?
The people attacking Dr Ally Louks over her chosen subject are really attacking everything they have decided she stands for: woke academia, feminists, leftist-elite intellectuals
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
Margrethe Vestager, the world’s pioneering tech cop, is making her exit
EU’s antitrust enforcer leaves Brussels proud of her tenure but conscious that it had been only ‘partly successful’
Bluesky is being touted as ‘Twitter before Elon Musk’. Can the good vibes last?
Another week, another new social media app. Could this one be a keeper or will it degenerate like its once-enjoyable forerunners?
Bluesky, the non-toxic alternative to X, has had a glow-up. But is the app here to stay?
Social media app that feels a lot like early Twitter has attracted millions of new users this month and, so far, is not annoying like Threads
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’
‘Toxic’ X just not worth it anymore, the Guardian concludes
X marks the exit door for the news title, which has announced it will no longer post on Elon Musk’s platform
The concept of the alpha male human is cultural, not biological
Elon Musk should know that human social structures are more fluid than even the most complex of animal hierarchies
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
Services operated by tech companies TikTok, X and Meta ‘exposed to terrorist content’, media regulator finds
Coimisiún na Meán said that the three companies would have to take specific measures to protect their services from being used for the dissemination of terrorist content
Core’s Aidan Greene: ‘Amazon.ie will be a gamechanger for Irish advertising clients’
The marketing communications group grew its net profit to more than €4m last year and has expanded again in 2024
Gardaí expand social-media monitoring to combat far-right extremism and serious offending
Many gardaí still calling for additional resources for open-source intelligence, particularly in investigations into online child sexual abuse
‘Pints and tries, c’mon the guys’: Party leaders use Ireland v New Zealand clash to kick off campaigns on social media
Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and Mary Lou McDonald take message directly to young voters on X, Instagram and TikTok
Light touch regulation did not work with banks and won’t work for video sharing platforms like TikTok
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisis
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’
Regulating social media is an impossible job but someone has got to at least try
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code is as much about what it doesn’t do as what it does
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
Pavel Durov built an app bigger than Elon Musk’s. Now it’s known as the dark web in your pocket
The arrest of the deeply private Russia tech titan has put the spotlight on illegal activity on Telegram, a preferred tool of the Irish far right. But Durov insists he is a defender of free speech
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
No, Elon Musk will not be a trillionaire by 2027
Any claim that anyone is to be a trillionaire any time soon is not credible
Media regulator opens review into how social media platforms deal with illegal online content
An initial information-gathering process by Coimisiún na Meán into how social media platforms deal with illegal online content could ultimately be expanded into an investigation or enforcement action
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
Presidential election debate offers opportunity and peril for Kamala Harris
As polls tighten, vice president and Donald Trump will come face to face for the first time in their campaigns for White House
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