A grand social media experiment begins in Australia. Will it work?
The country is trying to wean children under 16 off TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube and Instagram with a new law. Teenagers are sceptical
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Social media ban: Irish parents in Australia - what is your experience?
Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, YouTube, Reddit will need to deactivate all accounts for under 16s from December 10th
Italian companies locked out of Meta accounts fail in bid for temporary High Court orders
Firms also claimed Facebook parent unlawfully retained about €5 million in prepayments
Social media use grows overall but young people retreat, CSO shows
The use of internet banking is also increasingly common among people aged over 75
Plan to verify ages of children using social media in Ireland to be considered by Cabinet
Instagram and Facebook start closing accounts of young people in Australia believed to be under 16 following ban
Australia says world will follow social media ban as Meta starts blocking teens
Instagram, Facebook and Threads lock out thousands of accounts in Australia in advance of next week’s deadline
Newlyweds withdraw €120,000 compensation claim after honeymoon photos shown in court
Arthur McInerney and MaryMarie McCarthy claimed they were injured when Bentley limousine was struck by another car
Communications union seeks meeting over proposed job losses at Meta contractor Covalen
Facebook parent company seeking about 400 redundancies with area of content moderation likely affected
Profits at Facebook parent Meta Ireland surge 57% to €2.9bn
Staff numbers down by 20% with employees averaging €147,959 in salary before share-based pay and other benefits
Government department fights move to clamp down on online fraud
Enterprise wary of upsetting social media giants by asked them to verify promoters of investment products on their platforms
Google’s gains and Meta’s woes show a more cautious AI market
Markets appear to be increasingly wary of big AI promises unsupported by cash flow or path to profitability
Facebook Ireland former boss Gareth Lambe: ‘It gave us the ick, seeing Zuckerberg cosy up to Trump’
As Gareth Lambe builds online GP services group Medihive into a major medtech player, he says trust is the key to making the most of technology
Phone zombies are everywhere. What does this mean for us as a society?
So much of the social order depends on the mutual attention inherent in normal sensory experience. When we funnel 90 per cent of our working attention down into screens, we miss a lot
Data protection rules ‘completely out of control’, Meta tells Government
Facebook owner asked Government to lead pushback against data protection laws at EU level
Italian companies seek High Court order directing Meta to restore accounts
Meta says it suspended accounts used to provide advertising services without warning due to serious breaches
Enshittification: the word that sums up how we live now
It seems to convey a sense of promises broken, not just in technology but in culture and politics too
An early start and ‘humanising’ keepie-uppies: how Catherine Connolly thrived on social media
Going viral can help a candidate reach the masses but deepfake videos are ‘a threat to democracy’, expert says
EU accuses Meta of failing to police illegal content online
Tech giant faces penalty of up to 6% of global annual revenue
Meta cutting hundreds of AI jobs as firm aims to move faster
Tech giant wants impacted workers to apply for other internal positions
Deepfake AI video depicting Catherine Connolly quitting presidential race removed by Meta
Independent candidate in race for Áras condemns video, calling it ‘a disgraceful attempt to mislead voters’
Facebook owner asked Government to ‘intervene’ on EU tech regulations
Meta sought Government’s help to rein in Brussels regulators after €200 million fine
Social media platforms need to be ‘accountable’ for scam adverts, PayPal says
Payments giant backs Government proposal to crack down on ads linked to fraud schemes
Connolly keepie-uppies, Humphreys’s ‘quality videos’: The presidential social media battle
In online battle for support, Catherine Connolly is beating Heather Humphreys
Has social media finally peaked? The rise of AI and decline of screen time
As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away
The investigators spying on illegal cigarette sellers in Dublin
Team hired by tobacco company cannot make arrests but can feed information to gardaí and Revenue
Jim Gavin won’t be the last victim of a smear campaign. When will platforms act?
Allegations about the presidential candidate received thousands of comments and nearly a million views, as platforms did little to stop the spread
Meta set to launch paid version of Facebook and Instagram for UK
Move comes as tech giant tries to shore up revenue which relies on ads
Right-wing environmentalist and ‘Trump loyalist’ behind derogatory Jim Gavin posts
Kieran Kelly, former Waterford fisherman now living in Indonesia, declined to share any evidence for claims made online
At least 19 people killed during protests against Nepal’s social media ban
Government claims online platforms and apps missed deadline to register under new regulations
I dare you to walk through Dublin city centre of an evening. You won’t believe what you see
Irish social media is engulfed with paranoia. But at the capital’s heart is an extraordinary energy from which new ideas and fresh cultures emerge
How Trump protects Big Tech from Big Brussels
Pressure from White House and Big Tech putting squeeze on Europe’s digital rules
How tech workers earning six-figure salaries are changing the Dublin housing market
The high salaries paid by Big Tech employers in Ireland highlight our vulnerability to Trump’s tariffs agenda
Forget the futuristic dystopias: AI is changing the world right now
The backlash against changes to ChatGPT reveals how it is being used by users in their daily lives
I’m so sorry for my role in encouraging Netflix
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