Miriam’s Lord’s week: Fianna Fáil election fiasco report bundles Jim Gavin under the bus
Micheál Martin and his team ease back on the contrition and their inept handling of the presidential election campaign
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US authorities hit Meta with $16bn tax claim related to Irish transfers
Tech giant facing third US tax court case in recent years related to transactions from 2010
Online child safety could prove a major test for EU in battle with Trump
Anyone expecting a social media ban for Irish teenagers will be waiting and it’s not because we are bad parents
Facebook parent Meta granted permission by High Court to challenge possible €430m fine
Data Protection Commission proposes levy over user’s personal data being held in digital warehouse
It’s time to ban the toxic teen popularity counter
Now that the Australian social media ban is here, surveys that suggested 80% of parents supported it in theory are beginning to look wildly optimistic
Matt Williams: This is not a game – Ireland must match Australia and stand up for children
Across the world young people’s health is being damaged by a scourge that is luring them away from sport and other invigorating pursuits. It’s time to tackle it
Will Australia’s social media ban for children come to Ireland?
The Irish Government is developing a digital wallet as an age verification tool amid online safety push
A grand social media experiment begins in Australia. Will it work?
The country is trying to wean children under 16 off TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. Teenagers are sceptical
Social media ban: Irish parents in Australia - what is your experience?
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, YouTube, Reddit will need to deactivate all accounts for under 16s from December 10th
Italian companies locked out of Meta accounts fail in bid for temporary High Court orders
Firms also claimed Facebook parent unlawfully retained about €5 million in prepayments
Social media use grows overall but young people retreat, CSO shows
The use of internet banking is also increasingly common among people aged over 75
Plan to verify ages of children using social media in Ireland to be considered by Cabinet
Instagram and Facebook start closing accounts of young people in Australia believed to be under 16 following ban
Australia says world will follow social media ban as Meta starts blocking teens
Instagram, Facebook and Threads lock out thousands of accounts in Australia in advance of next week’s deadline
Newlyweds withdraw €120,000 compensation claim after honeymoon photos shown in court
Arthur McInerney and MaryMarie McCarthy claimed they were injured when Bentley limousine was struck by another car
Communications union seeks meeting over proposed job losses at Meta contractor Covalen
Facebook parent company seeking about 400 redundancies with area of content moderation likely affected
Profits at Facebook parent Meta Ireland surge 57% to €2.9bn
Staff numbers down by 20% with employees averaging €147,959 in salary before share-based pay and other benefits
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
Google’s gains and Meta’s woes show a more cautious AI market
Markets appear to be increasingly wary of big AI promises unsupported by cash flow or path to profitability
Facebook Ireland former boss Gareth Lambe: ‘It gave us the ick, seeing Zuckerberg cosy up to Trump’
As Gareth Lambe builds online GP services group Medihive into a major medtech player, he says trust is the key to making the most of technology
Phone zombies are everywhere. What does this mean for us as a society?
So much of the social order depends on the mutual attention inherent in normal sensory experience. When we funnel 90 per cent of our working attention down into screens, we miss a lot
Data protection rules ‘completely out of control’, Meta tells Government
Facebook owner asked Government to lead pushback against data protection laws at EU level
Italian companies seek High Court order directing Meta to restore accounts
Meta says it suspended accounts used to provide advertising services without warning due to serious breaches
Enshittification: the word that sums up how we live now
It seems to convey a sense of promises broken, not just in technology but in culture and politics too
An early start and ‘humanising’ keepie-uppies: how Catherine Connolly thrived on social media
Going viral can help a candidate reach the masses but deepfake videos are ‘a threat to democracy’, expert says
EU accuses Meta of failing to police illegal content online
Tech giant faces penalty of up to 6% of global annual revenue
Meta cutting hundreds of AI jobs as firm aims to move faster
Tech giant wants impacted workers to apply for other internal positions
Deepfake AI video depicting Catherine Connolly quitting presidential race removed by Meta
Independent candidate in race for Áras condemns video, calling it ‘a disgraceful attempt to mislead voters’
Facebook owner asked Government to ‘intervene’ on EU tech regulations
Meta sought Government’s help to rein in Brussels regulators after €200 million fine
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
Connolly keepie-uppies, Humphreys’s ‘quality videos’: The presidential social media battle
In online battle for support, Catherine Connolly is beating Heather Humphreys
Has social media finally peaked? The rise of AI and decline of screen time
As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away
The investigators spying on illegal cigarette sellers in Dublin
Team hired by tobacco company cannot make arrests but can feed information to gardaí and Revenue
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
Meta set to launch paid version of Facebook and Instagram for UK
Move comes as tech giant tries to shore up revenue which relies on ads
Right-wing environmentalist and ‘Trump loyalist’ behind derogatory Jim Gavin posts
Kieran Kelly, former Waterford fisherman now living in Indonesia, declined to share any evidence for claims made online
At least 19 people killed during protests against Nepal’s social media ban
Government claims online platforms and apps missed deadline to register under new regulations
I dare you to walk through Dublin city centre of an evening. You won’t believe what you see
Irish social media is engulfed with paranoia. But at the capital’s heart is an extraordinary energy from which new ideas and fresh cultures emerge
How Trump protects Big Tech from Big Brussels
Pressure from White House and Big Tech putting squeeze on Europe’s digital rules
How tech workers earning six-figure salaries are changing the Dublin housing market
The high salaries paid by Big Tech employers in Ireland highlight our vulnerability to Trump’s tariffs agenda
Forget the futuristic dystopias: AI is changing the world right now
The backlash against changes to ChatGPT reveals how it is being used by users in their daily lives
I’m so sorry for my role in encouraging Netflix
One of the problems with Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 is that everyone in it is profoundly irritating to spend time with
Revenue lays down the tax rules for Ireland’s army of influencers
Brand ambassadors driving cars or people accepting gifts in exchange for posts are all caught by rules that are explained in new Revenue guide
Irish regulators take aim at Big Tech, but how will the online safety code be implemented?
Failure to meet protection obligations will mean fines of up to €20 million or 10 per cent of platform’s annual turnover
Meta shares jump on strong results as Zuckerberg sets out ‘superintelligence’ goals
Stock rises 10% after-hours as profits and revenues beat Wall Street expectations
‘I saw a lot of graphic content’: Meet the Gen-Zers who are switching off their smartphones
It’s not easy to live in the modern world without a smartphone or social media, but a growing number of young people are actively choosing to reduce the time they spend on them
Meta to pull political ads in EU in response to new disinformation rules
Facebook and Instagram owner says new transparency regulations are ‘unworkable’ in latest attack on Brussels
How the death of an ‘old boy from Ireland’ in London-Irish suburb sparked a misguided viral appeal
The death of Martin Fallon from Sligo recently sparked a viral post about Archway’s evolving Irish enclave
How social media firms used the ‘like’ button to turbocharge their business models
New book charts the psychology of the like button in the digital world and looks at its future in the world of AI
Tech giants’ indirect emissions rose 150% in three years amid AI growth, UN says
Indirect carbon emissions from Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta, rose on average by 150% from 2020 to 2023
Illegal or fake weight-loss drugs seized by medicines watchdog this month almost five times 2024 total
Authority says it never endorses or lends its logo to brands or products
European Union risks becoming the ‘museum of the world’, says Meta privacy chief
Erin Egan says social media group is working to comply with regulation to unlock the benefits of AI but ‘the puck keeps moving’
Zuckerberg saying AI will cure loneliness is like big tobacco suggesting cigarettes can treat cancer
It’s a solution that can only lead to a deeper emptiness and to a lonelier, less human world
Zuckerberg takes pop at Apple during Stripe Sessions talk
In discussion with Stripe cofounder John Collison, Facebook founder addresses AI potential and failure of digital currency Libra
Playing ‘whack-a-mole’ with Meta over my fraudulent avatars
How is it possible that a company with such huge resources, including artificial intelligence tools, cannot deal with this?
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