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If a search warrant had been executed against the Gript office then it would have known about it; but an order to an internet firm demanding private messages is invisible

Musk frequently shares or highlights posts complaining about immigration into Ireland by Michael O’Keeffe, one of a number of Irish people to have grabbed the world’s richest man’s attention

Valuation would match price Musk paid for site despite loss of users and advertisers

Move follows ads and promoted posts on X featuring fake articles using Irish Independent branding

‘Smartest AI on Earth’ available to X’s Premium+ subscribers immediately

Michael McGrath dodged request to sit down with Facebook executive Nick Clegg, records show

A few years ago this would have seemed no more absurd than a US president renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America

The world’s richest man now holds huge sway over its most powerful leader — and the US government

Plus: Still waiting for Shane Ross to dish the dirt on RTÉ; ex-Ireland player’s country house plans hit a brick wall and team Trump take aim at an Irish ‘DEI musical’

‘As an American taxpayer I don’t want my dollars going towards this crap,’ Donald Trump’s press secretary told reporters

Unthinkable: Meta’s stance on fact-checking resembles a philosophical position known as ‘epistemological anarchy’

The Nordic country is helping students learn about spotting false information. Is there space in the Irish curriculum to do the same?

The digerati developed a monopoly on Americans’ attention, creating division, distrust and envy under the innocent guise of connecting us and making our lives better

The saga involves a person who duped GAA players and others by posing as someone else and using a bogus network of contacts

EU justice commissioner says bloc’s Digital Services Act will be used to prosecute social media that are artificially boosting political material to sway voters

Tech giants look to capitalise as TikTok briefly goes dark in US

Unthinkable: Irish economic policy was once framed as ‘Boston or Berlin’ – our options today are much starker

Expansion of probe follows complaints from politicians in Germany ahead of election next month

The scientific evidence is not as compelling as some commentators suggest. But our negative narrative around social media may risk becoming a self-fulfilling one

Meta will now allow ‘insulting language when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality’, and no longer bans describing women as ‘property’ or ‘household objects’