Man accused of making death threats to Mary Lou McDonald denied bail
Richard McGreevy (28) tells judge he was very angry at the time and did not intend for his TikTok video to go viral
Richard McGreevy (28) tells judge he was very angry at the time and did not intend for his TikTok video to go viral
Sinn Féin leader says there has been a particularly vicious focus online on her and her party in attempt to ‘alienate sentiment’
It is estimated that due to the posts the company has lost over €4 million in investment from 20 creators who have declined to work with the company.
Lidl using social network app to promote games to new fans
A high-profile call for tobacco-style warnings had no lasting effects on platforms’ shares
Average Irish home has nine devices connected to the internet, but middle-class cohorts have greater access to technology than their working-class counterparts
Discovery follows launches of data breach investigations concerning a former psychiatric hospital in Donegal and a hospital in Dublin
Ireland is struggling with a mental health crisis, while we are flooded with fluffy, often pseudoscientific therapeutic advice through social media
Social media platform is the subject of a complaint to the media regulator that it breached the EU Digital Services Act
A social media fad of women glamorising a very retrograde ideal of domesticity is a fantasy world with hidden dangers
Politics has always been a performance, but performative violence - abuse as content creation - is something new, at least at the scale that the anecdotal data suggests. We are now in a dangerous era of hybrid online-offline political violence
US presidential candidate, who tried to ban the video app during his presidency, posts 13-second video clip from a UFC bout in New Jersey
Social media platform prohibits political advertising
Cold War was a ‘cakewalk’ compared to the complexities of the current situation, says expert
Incident in Dublin was livestreamed online, while Letterkenny incident involved TikTok video showing people going through boxes of historical medical files
Hugh Linehan: The link economy is dying, and with it an entire ecosystem that supported content creation and communication is coming to an end
The works of Albert Camus, Seneca and Cicero are having an unlikely resurgence as a new generation embraces some old-school philosophy
Amanda Nell Eu’s debut marries unwanted menstruation and cryptozoological mythology to spooky effect
Diversity, equity and inclusion programmes are implemented in a spirit of political correctness and woke
The debate on children's use of smartphones can veer towards two extremes
TikTok is a growing part of young people’s lives but there are concerns about sleep deprivation, mental health and attention span
Chinese firm says divestiture ‘is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally’
Planet Business: Kinder Bueno theft, potential TikTok buyers and more worrying dispatches from the latest Boeing whistleblower
What’s so bad about TikTok gathering data when other social media companies do it too?
Bill passed by Senate gives China-based ByteDance up to one year to divest Tiktok before facing deletion from US app stores
UK police are investigating a raft of complaints from women who have been surreptitiously filmed on nights out
New Tiktok service ‘could be as toxic and addictive as cigarettes’, says bloc’s digital commissioner
Clip shows two men exploring Baggot Street facility, entering wards and finding documents that appeared to be hospital records
Unusual four-Bill package includes measure threating to ban TikTok and potential transfer of seized Russian assets to Ukraine
From over-zealous photo opportunists and MA graduates to comedy speeches at party conferences, it was a busy week in politics
Influencers like Andrew Tate and Myron Gaines feed on male insecurity by offering spurious advice on mental health, money-making and fitness, but extreme misogynistic content quickly follows
Control options that apps and platforms have already put in place allow us to shield children, and, ourselves from the worst the online world has to offer
DCU research finds young males fed ‘toxic’ anti-feminist and other extremist content within 23 minutes
Legislators should be ‘much more aggressive’ in holding technology firms to account, Oireachtas committee told
Oireachtas meeting will focus on protection of children in the use of AI
Simon Harris's social media skills have conferred on him an air of mystique among an older generation of politicians. But voters are less likely to be wowed
‘Sunscreen contouring’, ‘freckling’ and DIY chemical peels are among the concerning trends people are absorbing online
Looksmaxxing, starvemaxxing and mewing are among trends in sculpted looks that veer from scientifically dubious to downright dangerous
Interviews with multiple TikTok employees based in Dublin have revealed concern over the fairness and transparency of the redundancy process at the social media giant
Relationships: A growing TikTok trend, whereby partner’s commitment and love is tested for world to judge, can be destructive
Donald Trump’s social media network is trading at valuations that make some of the most successful listed businesses in history look pedestrian
ASTI teachers back calls for stronger laws to prevent online abuse and cyberbullying
Online fake news and hybrid campaigns increase in advance of European elections
Inside Business podcast with Ciarán Hancock
First brand refresh since 2015 follows €1.2 billion investment in telecoms company’s infrastructure and customer care
Finding a solution that will keep the US authorities happy while also getting China on board will be difficult
Owner ByteDance is on track to overtake Facebook owner Meta as the world’s largest social media company by sales
One idea under discussion would be to take voting control of the popular video app
Beijing urges Washington to ‘stop unfairly suppressing foreign companies’
National security grounds are cited for seeking change of ownership of the social media platform
Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly back Bill, which gives Chinese owner of video-sharing platform 180 days to divest ownership
The latest trend on TikTok is for content creators to ‘reveal’ through lip-reading what celebrities are whispering to their friends. But is it fair, ethical or even remotely accurate?
Spend some time with younger people and the evidence of dopamine culture is everywhere
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices