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Two men accused of targeting DoneDeal and Facebook sellers in spate of vehicle thefts

Edward Collins (21) and Sean Hutchinson (24) face 13 and 24 charges respectively

Stormont Minister breached ministerial code with social media post, report finds

Commissioner says Gordon Lyons’s actions had potential of ‘heightening tensions’ during rioting in North last year

Parental controls for digital platforms can protect kids from social media’s dark side

Parents worry about toxic social media and their children accessing inappropriate content but they are not powerless in limiting access

Irish man who ‘encouraged’ US teens to produce hundreds of sexually explicit videos jailed

Gary Clavin (33) encouraged at least four girls aged 14 to 16 to make child pornography

Grok is awful but banning X is a betrayal of free speech

State-driven attempts to shut down a corner of the public realm are wrong

‘They’ve all found workarounds’: Irish parents in Australia on the social media ban

‘Is it bad letting the government parent our kids? It’s impossible for us to police it,’ says one mother

Oversharing on Instagram is narcissistic. Doing it on Facebook is having a meltdown

Are we soon going to reach posting zero, the point at which people stop sharing online? I hope so

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

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

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