State gave Facebook permission to vet FOI records release

New emails show that Facebook repeatedly asked the Department of the Taoiseach to give it copies of records being released under FOI law and eventually asked that they be shared in advance so that it could request redactions

Facebook Ireland’s head of public policy Niamh Sweeney

The government allowed Facebook to vet records that were being released under freedom of information law, The Sunday Business Post can reveal. New emails show that Facebook repeatedly asked the Department of the Taoiseach to give it copies of records being released under FOI law and eventually asked that they be shared in advance so that it could request redactions.

The department eventually acceded to the request and, in one instance, asked Facebook ...