Legislators should be ‘much more aggressive’ in holding technology firms to account, Oireachtas committee told
Social media firms are causing 'unquantifiable damage' by promoting inappropriate and dangerous content to young people, an Oireachtas committee has heard. Photograph: iStock
Teenage boys ‘bombarded’ with misogynist content within minutes of signing up to TikTok and YouTube Shorts‘The yard is too small; we’ve to tell pupils not to run too fast’: The school working out of prefabs for 30 years Fianna Fáil’s Senator Malcolm Byrne said he was not convinced that use of artificial intelligence to flag inappropriate content, such as extreme or violent material, was effective.He said misinformation around riots in Sydney recently had included content from Ireland, which prompted a strong response from the Australian social media commissioner.
Fine Gael’s Senator Mary Seery-Kearney said it was “unforgivable” that WhatsApp had recently reduced its age limit to 13, and said the mental health of young people was being affected by the addictive nature of social media. She said evidence of heightened levels of anxiety among teenagers had much to do with how they were increasingly communicating through devices and not directly with each other.
Susan Moss of TikTok said safety was a core priority which defines the company, which now has more than 40,000 “trust and safety” professionals working to protect online users. “This would not remove responsibility from every app to have processes in place to manage age effectively,” he said.
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