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In the world of content creation, only those who please the online algorithms survive. Adam B is one of them: his father’s background is in data science

When social media first took off, it was presented as a public commons, where people could exchange ideas and interests. What it eventually became couldn’t be further from that civilised concept

Television: Curly-haired Dutchman Jonathan Jacob Meijer is thought to have fathered some 1,100 children

Licensing negotiations come as music industry wrestles with legal and creative impact of artificial intelligence

Diversity, equity and inclusion programmes are implemented in a spirit of political correctness and woke

UK police are investigating a raft of complaints from women who have been surreptitiously filmed on nights out

Influencers like Andrew Tate and Myron Gaines feed on male insecurity by offering spurious advice on mental health, money-making and fitness, but extreme misogynistic content quickly follows

DCU research finds young males fed ‘toxic’ anti-feminist and other extremist content within 23 minutes

Unlike Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Alphabet’s YouTube has not been blocked in Russia

Spend some time with younger people and the evidence of dopamine culture is everywhere

Site claims it is ‘clearly not’ a video-sharing platform

Coimisiún na Meán said a forthcoming code will carry potential fines of up to €20 million and tackle harmful content, particularly that affecting children

Musk’s social media platform X (formerly Twitter), criticised for refusing to appear at Committee to answer questions about its response to last month’s riots in Dublin

Ireland enlisted EU officials to approach social media giants in first use of new ‘incident protocol’ but content in Irish language may have escaped attention

YouTube stops actor from making money on its platform while BBC pulls material that ‘now falls below public expectations’

Child of the accused climbed out a window and ran to a nearby house seeking help and food

Professor Paul Dunlop balances his professional life as a glaciologist with an intense investigation into the defective blocks that are steadily and irreversibly ruining his family home

Ask the Expert: Having a rule of ‘no phone until secondary school’ is a very reasonable goal, though frequently this decision is not just an individual family one

What I Do: Paddy Galloway (27) is a YouTube strategist from Carlow

Service grappling with issue, which was highlighted during pandemic