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With grief bots, virtual bouquets and streaming of funerals now available to us, is technology making grieving processes easier?

Comments follow Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to replace fact-checking departments with company-moderated community notes

Move by company’s billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg prompted alarm among social media experts

It is hardly an accident that the new policies are almost identical to those of Elon Musk’s X

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Meta chief drops factcheckers, but don’t bet on move to go well with his advertisers

Company to rely on ‘community notes’ in free speech pitch

Technology has changed the way many of us consume information, from complex pieces of writing to short video clips

But that hegemony will end, perhaps soon. If you value good journalism and good design, give someone you love a newspaper subscription this Christmas

Friend had already sent money via Apple Pay when ruse was discovered

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

Meta Platforms fine tied to 2018 data breach impacting 29m Facebook accounts globally

Examples of terrorist content can include photos of crime scenes glorifying terrorist acts, or posts or comments which incite, solicit or advocate for the commission of terrorist offences

Social media giant sees turnover near €70bn

Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m

Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says

Many gardaí still calling for additional resources for open-source intelligence, particularly in investigations into online child sexual abuse

Sobriety may be trendy right now, but for me it’s been a much deeper personal shift

Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisis

Monk from Tibet planted yew tree in garden, which has been more effective means of staying in touch

The company is targeting fraudsters and scammers who use the image of somebody well-known to fool people into clicking on a malicious website

Coimisiún na Meán’s code will affect all video-sharing platforms with EU headquarters in Ireland

Plan signals mobile phones – and by extension social media platforms – are detrimental to children. The question now is what the Government will do next

Increasingly confident investors looking beyond tech giants, suggesting reign may be over — for now at least

Social media group inadvertently stored certain passwords of social media users in ‘plaintext’ on its internal systems

‘Influencing’ didn’t exist as a career 20 years ago but it’s now one of the most popular, with ever-younger people aspiring to become the next big thing on social media

As more people question their smartphone use, some are consciously turning their backs on the virtual world in favour of real life

Restriction to apply between 14 and 16 with age verification technology trial to begin soon, says PM

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp parent company’s oversight body says phrase has multiple meanings and ‘context is crucial’

A ban for under-16s may polarise opinion, but we can’t keep highlighting the teenage mental-health crisis while ignoring the root cause

Constant warnings about the technology’s power prime early users for disappointment

‘So-called keyboard warriors’ must take responsibility for language used online, says judge

There are powerful tools to counter the amplification of extreme material. We just need to use them

Businessman pursuing people behind fake and misleading advertisements on Meta social platforms

Outsized influence meant poorly-received results can drag markets down disproportionately

Nvidia alone lost over $200bn in market value on Wednesday

Public bodies must ensure that at least 20% of advertising placed is in the Irish language, and at least 5% of budget must be spent on Irish-language media

In 2022, retailers on ecommerce platform Shopify started to report unusual activity from Ireland

Without use of local data planned product would be ‘second-rate experience’, says Facebook owner

AI assistants, training simulations and data tracking boost developers