Media Advertising regulator will start using AI to monitor Irish influencersThe measure is in response to a growing lack of trust in social media marketing ads
Social Media European Commission bans staff from using TikTokEmployees given until March 15 to get rid of the social media app, the commission said in an email to employees on Thursday
Social Media Children as young as 8 viewing harmful online content as companies ‘not policing’ age restrictionsA 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’
Media Ireland’s Big Tech-funded media regulator seeks watchdog for online platformsGovernment adds extra role as expert warns Coimisiún na Meán will need vast resources to oversee Europe’s defacto online tech industry
Design For Life I’m addicted to social media, but don’t want to give it up entirelyThis week, expert Louize Carroll advises a reader who needs social media for work, but is exasperated by the sheer amount of time they inevitably end up spending on it
Column Eithne Shortall: All I want for after Christmas is to be free from social media We’ve heard of Movember and Veganuary: what we need now is a name for a month without the endless making of little films and sharing of every thought
Legal An exercise in failure: when a social media ‘wellness lifestyle’ venture soursAn online fitness class business partnership between influencer Niamh Cullen and Bold Communications turned sour amid allegations of ‘personal distress’ and legal letters detailing an intellectual property dispute
Connected Jess Kelly: Social media need not be a hellscapeIt’s not all bad on social media, a bit of muting and blocking can ensure your experience stays positive
Social Media Elon Musk to scrap lifelong user bans as he takes control of TwitterA stream of executives have left as the billionaire completed his takeover of the social media firm
Twitter Twitter launches edit button for paying subscribersCompany is specifically testing the edit button with a small group of users in hopes of quickly resolving possible issues
Media Willie O’Reilly: The Irish like their media more than most – but bad news is causing some to turn offIn Ireland, we access far more news and trust more of what we read, but the effects of distressing news cycles can’t be ignored by publishers
tourism Dermot O’Leary and Laura Whitmore among influencers employed by Tourism Ireland in €1.7m campaign State’s tourism agency has for years brought celebrities and journalists to Ireland for ‘familiarisation visits’ designed to win positive media coverage
Media Willie O’Reilly: Wagatha Christie case should be a lesson in cautionThe libel trial between two English footballers’ wives has gripped the public imagination, but the consequences for those involved could be costly
Willie O’Reilly: A Musk-owned Twitter must protect more than ‘free speech’It remains to be seen how the world’s wealthiest man will change the world’s most powerful social media platform, which he is set to buy for $44 billion
Willie O’Reilly: The voices you can trust in the fog of warAmid all the noise and ill-informed conjecture, a handful of social media commentators stand out for their clear-eyed analysis of the war in Ukraine
Twitter to set up dedicated abuse report system for OireachtasThe proposal follows research published by the Business Post last month which found that 96 per cent of the 50 female politicians surveyed had experienced abuse on the platform.
Twitter promises faster action on fake news amid Ukraine invasionFacebook owner Meta says it is ‘closely monitoring’ for misinformation on its platforms
Willie O’Reilly: In revealing America’s toxic underbelly, Louis Theroux has a dilemmaForbidden America, the BBC’s new documentary on digital media-savvy white supremacists, comes dangerously close to promoting the nest of vipers it seeks to expose
Willie O’Reilly: The last whoops and hollers of the internet’s Wild WestThe Twitterati were incandescent over the sale of Wordle, while Spotify seemed to think it had no responsibility for Covid misinformation on its Joe Rogan podcast
Deirdre Heenan: Twitter’s double-edged sword leaves Beattie’s liberal credentials in tattersThe UUP leader is just the latest politician to find out that contentious social media posts have the potential to derail a career
