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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.
While calling out abusive trolls, author and feminist Lindy West said the real reason she’s leaving Twitter is because Twitter itself refused to do anything substantial to protect its users.
“George, nobody likes you, not even yourself.”
Dil Wickremasinghe outlines the attacks she has suffered on social media relating to her pregnancy – and the social stigma they illustrate.
We asked two high-profile Twitter users to share their experiences of online harassment…
And is going to court to stop the station from airing its show. Is this reality TV gone too far?
New research also shows that three quarters of parents do not check their children’s online activity every day.
A new study, in connection with Bristol University, is to look at how people use content online when experiencing suicidal thoughts.
Additionally, it’s been found that one in five children surveyed said they’d had contact online with people they had never met in person.
Half of the 1,400 young people surveyed said they had witnessed bullying online, while a large number admitted saying things on the internet that they never would in person.
Sinn Féin has tabled legislation which will require school boards to adopt mandatory counter-bullying measures.
Some fear social media because they misunderstand it or fear power being transferred from the few to the many but it needs no more or no less regulation than our existing methods, argues junior minister Ciarán Cannon.
The 13-year-old was found dead at the weekend after posting messages lashing out at people who had verbally abused her online.