Instagram and Musk’s X tout new video tools amid TikTok US ban
Tech giants look to capitalise as TikTok briefly goes dark in US
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Stories related to social media firm X, formerly known as Twitter
Squid Game or Sweden? The choice Ireland faces as Donald Trump takes office
Unthinkable: Irish economic policy was once framed as ‘Boston or Berlin’ – our options today are much starker
Brussels orders X to hand over documents on algorithm
Expansion of probe follows complaints from politicians in Germany ahead of election next month
Social media has a limited effect on teenage mental health
The scientific evidence is not as compelling as some commentators suggest. But our negative narrative around social media may risk becoming a self-fulfilling one
Moves by Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg set scene for confrontation between EU and US
Meta will now allow ‘insulting language when discussing transgender rights, immigration or homosexuality’, and no longer bans describing women as ‘property’ or ‘household objects’
Why is Meta getting rid of fact-checking and will it affect my social media feed?
Move by company’s billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg prompted alarm among social media experts
The Irish Times view on Zuckerberg’s changes: Meta goes Maga
It is hardly an accident that the new policies are almost identical to those of Elon Musk’s X
Musk says ‘things will get much worse’ for Germany unless voters rally behind far-right party
Billionaire made comments in live-streamed conversation with Alternative for Germany’s co-leader Alice Weidel on X
Better passwords, empty inbox and thinking before you share: How to put manners on your tech use
Digital clutter, excessive screen time and bad screen habits are all issues worth tackling this new year
Calls for EU to resist social media giants regulation rollback
European Commission under pressure to combat Elon Musk’s ‘intolerable’ meddling in European elections
Immigration and the rise and fall of the Irish far right in 2024
Violence continued to grow along with the disinformation campaigns targeting asylum seekers, but far-right candidates failed to turn their large social media followings into votes
The old gatekeepers have lost control of the message. The implication for politics, democracy and society is enormous
When I was younger, Ireland had the main newspapers, political parties, RTÉ, the church and the education system. Today, everyone is an editor
Bluesky may be in danger of becoming Elon Musk’s black mirror
Wokeism (as it doesn’t like to be called) and the reactionary right each propose a way of seeing the world as it ‘really’ is
The Irish Times view on social media regulation: Ireland caught in the middle
As the European home of some of the major tech players, the State has a crucial role in an area where tensions are likely with the US
Irish Quakers join ‘Twitter eXodus’, abandoning social network over misinformation and harmful content
Elon Musk’s social media network has been a source of ‘disquiet for many years’, says religious group
New online safety code in the crosshairs as Elon Musk’s X takes media regulator to the High Court
Big tech fears more stringent rules being applied to their online platforms under a series of domestic and EU laws
EU needs to be less ‘polite’ in resisting Russian attempts to sway elections
Worldview: Attacks include sabotage, assassinations, parcel bombs, cyber attacks, electoral interference, social media disinformation campaigns and the testing of military preparedness
Irish company leveraging AI to help brands communicate climate actions responsibly and avoid claims of greenwashing
Marketing platform UnitMode aims to ‘supercharge consumer-powered climate innovation’
Why is an obscure PhD on the politics of smell causing outrage online?
The people attacking Dr Ally Louks over her chosen subject are really attacking everything they have decided she stands for: woke academia, feminists, leftist-elite intellectuals
Forget Bluesky and pre-Musk Twitter. Friendship is the only true antidote to polarisation
It is less easy to hate someone with baffling ideas when you know and like them as a person
Social media taps into a dark human need to be mean to other people
As people – even Stephen King – flee the platform, discussion of where to move to feels underpinned by a sadness that the kind of virtual space they crave may no longer be possible
Margrethe Vestager, the world’s pioneering tech cop, is making her exit
EU’s antitrust enforcer leaves Brussels proud of her tenure but conscious that it had been only ‘partly successful’
Bluesky is being touted as ‘Twitter before Elon Musk’. Can the good vibes last?
Another week, another new social media app. Could this one be a keeper or will it degenerate like its once-enjoyable forerunners?
Bluesky, the non-toxic alternative to X, has had a glow-up. But is the app here to stay?
Social media app that feels a lot like early Twitter has attracted millions of new users this month and, so far, is not annoying like Threads
Bluesky is starting to surge amid upheaval in the social media world
Network, which grew from an off-shoot of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter, experiencing ‘growing pains’ of popularity as membership passes 15m
Sport Twitter, now X, deplorable, compelling and mindless ... but still, it’s hard to say goodbye
‘It can feel like this is the space where we all put our most toxic part, where the collective black dog lurks’
‘Toxic’ X just not worth it anymore, the Guardian concludes
X marks the exit door for the news title, which has announced it will no longer post on Elon Musk’s platform
The concept of the alpha male human is cultural, not biological
Elon Musk should know that human social structures are more fluid than even the most complex of animal hierarchies
The Guardian leaves X, calling it a ‘toxic media platform’
News outlet cites 'often disturbing content promoted or found on the platform' and says US election 'underlined' its decision
Services operated by tech companies TikTok, X and Meta ‘exposed to terrorist content’, media regulator finds
Coimisiún na Meán said that the three companies would have to take specific measures to protect their services from being used for the dissemination of terrorist content
Core’s Aidan Greene: ‘Amazon.ie will be a gamechanger for Irish advertising clients’
The marketing communications group grew its net profit to more than €4m last year and has expanded again in 2024
Gardaí expand social-media monitoring to combat far-right extremism and serious offending
Many gardaí still calling for additional resources for open-source intelligence, particularly in investigations into online child sexual abuse
‘Pints and tries, c’mon the guys’: Party leaders use Ireland v New Zealand clash to kick off campaigns on social media
Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and Mary Lou McDonald take message directly to young voters on X, Instagram and TikTok
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