A new survey has found one in five 8-12 year-olds have seen something online that they ‘wouldn’t want their parents to know about’

Government adds extra role as expert warns Coimisiún na Meán will need vast resources to oversee Europe’s defacto online tech industry

The watchdog will act on complaints about inappropriate content across the EU if social networking services are ‘ineffective’ in dealing with them, according to an official report

Nets are also being cast to fill posts of online safety commissioner and media development commissioner, ahead of Coimisiún na Meán being formally set up

The system will prompt users to provide a form of identification if the probability that they are underage is deemed to be high

Irish politicians currently face unprecedented levels of abuse on social media. Now research has discovered that almost half of all the hostility is coming from a tiny number of accounts. But in a new age of political rancour, a small cohort can still make an extremely loud noise

The expert group is to examine whether it is practicable to include an individual complaints mechanism in the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill

Social media companies have long warned of conflict between EU’s Digital Services Act and Ireland’s new online safety bill