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Trend follows widespread concern about companies appearing next to controversial material

Plus: Pizza man Brian MacGoey buys an upper-crust pad, Google eyes Boland’s Mills merch, and Young Fine Gael in a flap about proposed social media ban

Indictment of Telegram founder Pavel Durov raises the stakes in evolving debate over responsibility for online content

The electric vehicle group’s founder is more likely to be in the news these days for his hard-right ramblings than for EVs

Internet providers in Brazil will be told to block social media platform as Musk misses deadline to appoint legal representative in the country

Is the combative entrepreneur fanning the flames of far-right politics or is he just ‘an angry man screaming into a hurricane’?

Shifting back to X may may political sense, but it won’t help Trump Media’s shareholders

The billionaire’s actions undermines the contention that social media companies provide a value-neutral servic

Taoiseach to convene meeting of State agencies and other stakeholders as concerns about online threats and inflammatory content escalate

Record WRC award after Twitter offered €22,834 severance to senior Irish Twitter staffer who was deemed by company to have resigned

Elon Musk’s antics are turning off the most obvious customers for his cars

Global Alliance for Responsible Media said it does not have resources to fight suit and continue operating

Social network agreed to ‘suspend its processing of the personal data’, Data Protection Commission says

Outcry over unchecked antisemitic content and commentary on X sparked many big advertisers to pull ads from the platform

Data Protection Commission focuses on company’s use of user data to train its Grok enhanced search tool

‘Professional’ protesters at recent anti-immigration events used tactics popular among far right in EU and US, security sources say

What began as the high idealism of Arab Spring-style community reporting has soured into the preserve of right-wing provocateurs

Logging on to X/Twitter is likely to exacerbate feelings of loneliness, boredom, outrage and political polarisation, researchers at the University of Toronto found

Social media platform owned by Elon Musk faces fines of up to 6% of turnover if initial European Commission view is confirmed

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.

When social media first took off, it was presented as a public commons, where people could exchange ideas and interests. What it eventually became couldn’t be further from that civilised concept

A high-profile call for tobacco-style warnings had no lasting effects on platforms’ shares

Tensions between billionaire and his top executive have been rising as the platform’s financial health has struggled

If the professional social network is now a place for personal posts, why isn’t it funnier?

Sports injury specialist Ray Moran’s vote of confidence in his own knees, Albert Manifold’s planning setbacks, and the IRFU’s home extensions

Credit unions top the annual RepTrak study for 2024, with only X found to have a worse reputation than RTÉ

Up to half of sixth class pupils included in Snapchat groups in some schools

Emer McLysaght: This tainted emoji has tormented so many for so long. Why then, do I now find myself softening towards it?

Billionaire was being questioned in lawsuit accusing him of promoting conspiracy theory

Respect to Work campaign hopes to boost union membership in tech and finance sectors

While other social platforms are still growing worldwide, new figures suggest daily usage of Elon Musk’s company has waned

Abdelhafid Bensaada is suing a conversative news site for falsely linking him to the attack

CSO’s latest monthly payrolls data highlights how global tech retrenchment is playing out

It started as an internal Twitter project, now it’s an alternative to Elon Musk’s X platform

Switch your ‘default setting’ to real life with social media somewhere you visit instead of the place you live

Court told the entire action brought by Aaron Rodericks, the co-lead of threat disruption at X, had been resolved

Passing the hate-speech legislation would be a better riposte

The businessman and investor warned of risks associated with laws that aim to curb free speech

Reddit takes judicial review over designation as ‘video-sharing platform’ for regulation purposes

Coimisiún na Meán said a forthcoming code will carry potential fines of up to €20 million and tackle harmful content, particularly that affecting children