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# Online Safety

Minister raises age verification issues with Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg

A recent study found that over half of nine year olds are on social media despite age restrictions.

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Sep 13th 2018, 5:47 PM

# Cyber Safety

32% of Irish children are talking to strangers online every week

Over half of nine year olds are on social media despite age restrictions, a new survey has found.

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Sep 10th 2018, 8:27 AM

# Data Centres

One farmer stands in the way of Facebook's plans to expand its Meath data centre campus

The social media giant is planning a facility the size of around eight Aviva pitches.

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Sep 6th 2018, 2:43 PM

# Senate hearing

Twitter's Jack Dorsey tells US Senate that platform does not operate on basis of 'political ideology'

It comes after Donald Trump accused technology firms of “censorship” and suppressing conservative voices.

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Sep 5th 2018, 10:45 PM

# Fraud

Irish consumers scammed by fraudulent websites advertising on Facebook and Instagram

Well-known brands have distanced themselves from the websites, whose ads keep appearing on social media.

40.0k

Aug 30th 2018, 12:05 AM

# FAKE NEWS

Twitter and Facebook ban hundreds of accounts in crackdown on Iran, Russia misinformation

Mark Zuckerberg called the deception campaigns “sophisticated and well-funded efforts that aren’t going to stop”.

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Aug 22nd 2018, 9:49 AM

# infowars

Twitter suspends personal account of Infowars' host Alex Jones

It comes a week after Twitter said it would not follow other social media companies in banning Jones from its platform.

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Aug 15th 2018, 11:56 AM

# Boom to Bust

Taoiseach says there's 'no evidence of a land bubble' in Ireland

Leo Varadkar said it is something the government will keep an eye on.

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Aug 2nd 2018, 6:15 AM

# moderation

'The time for apologies is over': Facebook launches inquiry following Dispatches programme

Workers at Irish contactor CPL who featured in the TV programme have been urged to take time off for their wellbeing.

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Aug 1st 2018, 5:15 PM

# meddling

'Bad' accounts like Resisters and Aztlan Warriors shut down by Facebook ahead of US midterms

“We’re still in the very early stages of our investigation,” Facebook said.

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Aug 1st 2018, 8:44 AM

# dublin moderation

Politicians to return from holidays to grill Facebook execs on undercover Channel 4 report

An undercover Channel 4 Dispatches programme into moderation at the Dublin Headquarters revealed widespread failures.

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Jul 30th 2018, 1:42 PM

# shares tumble

Facebook has a massive €102 billion wiped off its market value

Shares of the social media giant have tumbled on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

22.8k

Jul 26th 2018, 3:32 PM

# foreign ads

Watchdog fears foreign ads could influence Irish referendums and elections

The Standards in Public Office said it is concerned about political interference from organisations outside of Ireland.

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Jul 26th 2018, 1:33 PM

# Consumer Affairs

Aptamil says there are 'no safety issues' with milk formula after claims it made babies sick

French food group Danone, who manufacture the product, launched an investigation this month following hundreds of complaints from parents.

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Jul 20th 2018, 6:35 PM

# Content warning

Minister tells Facebook he is 'appalled and disgusted' over harmful content

Naughten said that the company needed a “step change” in their practices.

10.8k

Jul 20th 2018, 9:22 AM

# Facebook

Zuckerberg says Holocaust denial is 'deeply offensive' after criticism over comments

The Facebook CEO said posts denying the Holocaust took place would not be removed automatically from the social media platform.

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Jul 19th 2018, 5:06 PM

# New York

Naughten to meet Facebook management to discuss 'deep concerns' about harmful content

A Dispatches documentary revealed that inappropriate content remained on the social media platform despite being reported.

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Jul 18th 2018, 9:27 PM

# Facebook

Retail Excellence suspends partnership with Facebook after undercover reporter exposes violations

Retail Excellence had partnered with Facebook to provide training to retailers to enhance their digital strategies through their platform.

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Jul 18th 2018, 2:34 PM

# Dispatches

Calls for fines and gardaí after undercover report about Facebook moderation in Dublin

Channel 4′s Dispatches programme sent a reporter to record training.

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Jul 18th 2018, 10:48 AM

# social media giant

Poll: Would Facebook's moderation policies put you off using it?

Channel 4 sent an undercover reporter into Facebook’s offices to get an insight about how it makes decisions on what to delete.

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Jul 18th 2018, 9:31 AM

# C4 Dispatches

'A very serious breach of trust': Images of child abuse stayed on Facebook, undercover report claims

Facebook said it was grateful to the journalists for bringing “mistakes” in its training processes to its attention.

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Jul 17th 2018, 10:08 PM

# Online Safety

Taoiseach 'appalled' that comment referring to 'knacker children' not removed by Facebook

The Taoiseach made the comment as he launched the government’s new online safety strategy, which will see Facebook and Google on an advisory panel.

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Jul 11th 2018, 5:29 PM

# Child Protection

Facebook to start placing child abduction alerts on Irish users' feeds

CRI Alerts have only been used by gardaí on six occasions since their introduction.

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Jun 27th 2018, 10:13 AM

# dangerous behaviour

Ad for Breatharian event about woman living without food 'condoned dangerous behaviour'

The committee found the advert was encouraging and condoning dangerous behaviour.

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Jun 27th 2018, 6:15 AM

# Goats and turbans

An investigation into some of the cringiest Facebook pages I liked as a teen

Why were we so obsessed with goats?

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Jun 23rd 2018, 6:00 PM

# igtv

Instagram launches new long-form video service to compete with YouTube

Instagram’s CEO also announced that the social media platform now has more than one billion active users.

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Jun 21st 2018, 9:29 AM

# Work

Struggle with confidence in work? Our expert has the answers to your questions

Do you have questions about growing your confidence at work? We want to hear them.

15.7k

Jun 11th 2018, 3:20 PM

# Max Schrems

Bane of Facebook uses launch of GDPR to file four court cases against social media giants

Max Schrems has been battling Facebook’s privacy standards for the past seven years.

29.4k

May 25th 2018, 8:37 PM

# my bad

'I'm sorry' - Facebook boss faces European lawmakers

“And that goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections or developers misusing people’s information.”

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May 22nd 2018, 10:44 PM

# Data privacy

Facebook banned 583 million fake accounts in the first three months of the year

Facebook said those closures came on top of blocking millions of attempts to create fake accounts every day.

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May 15th 2018, 9:38 PM

# Eighth Amendment

Facebook feature shows official Eighth Amendment campaign pages are being managed by accounts located abroad

A new Facebook feature silently went live for a period yesterday showing where managers of pages are located.

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May 12th 2018, 9:30 AM

# Eighth Amendment

Despite self-regulation, anonymous Facebook accounts are still targeting voters with Eighth referendum ads

The issue of anonymous accounts posting ads in relation to the Eighth Amendment referendum has been raised repeatedly over the past number of weeks.

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May 11th 2018, 6:15 AM

# Neighbourhood Watch

11 posts you'll definitely see in your local Facebook group

There seem to be 7 million local plumbers in the one group.

7.1k

May 9th 2018, 9:00 PM

# Adwords

Google and YouTube to suspend all ads on Eighth Amendment referendum

The ban will include ads on YouTube, and will take effect from tomorrow.

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May 9th 2018, 12:43 PM

# the eighth

Facebook announces a ban of all Eighth referendum ads from foreign sources

Facebook said that it will not allow any ads coming from foreign sources which are deemed to be “attempting to influence the outcome of the vote on May 25″.

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May 8th 2018, 1:33 PM