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The arrest of the deeply private Russia tech titan has put the spotlight on illegal activity on Telegram, a preferred tool of the Irish far right. But Durov insists he is a defender of free speech

Social media giant – now known as X – ordered to pay award of €550,131 to former executive Gary Rooney

Any claim that anyone is to be a trillionaire any time soon is not credible

An initial information-gathering process by Coimisiún na Meán into how social media platforms deal with illegal online content could ultimately be expanded into an investigation or enforcement action

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

As polls tighten, vice president and Donald Trump will come face to face for the first time in their campaigns for White House

Trend follows widespread concern about companies appearing next to controversial material

Issue centred on use of personal data to train AI systems

The Revelation of Ireland 1995-2020 dissects Irish life over 25 years, with the benefit of hindsight and the opening up of archives

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

Judge Alexandre de Moraes says moves against platform are part of fight to protect democracy from misinformation and hateful content

Four rules for exiting the site formerly known as Twitter

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

Owning a media lodestar can be the ultimate ego trip as Elon Musk demonstrated with his travesty of an ‘interview’ with Donald Trump

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

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

Discussion on X hit by technical issues which platform’s owner blamed on a ‘massive’ cyberattack

The eejits who get caught have been hooked by algorithms engineered by social media companies

Former president, who was banned from Twitter in 2021, could provide boost to the platform

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

Trump cheerleading, inflammatory comments on British race riots and suing advertisers are all damaging to image of Tesla founder and X owner

Planet Business: Another acquisition target for Mars, Elon Musk’s advertiser lawsuit and the new name for Twickenham

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

President blames Musk for being a driving force behind protests and dissent following the recent disputed election

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

Taoiseach said he would ‘never be deterred’ from job by threats and intimidation online

Four men from Belfast charged as part of the investigation into the serious disorder on Saturday were all refused bail and remanded in custody

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

Tánaiste speaks about efforts to learn identity of those behind adverts as he outlines Government plans to overhaul defamation laws

From photography to working from home, being able to prove things are real is ever more important

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

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