Lessons for advertisers on how new rules on Irish-language ads will work
Public bodies must ensure that at least 20% of advertising placed is in the Irish language, and at least 5% of budget must be spent on Irish-language media
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Public bodies must ensure that at least 20% of advertising placed is in the Irish language, and at least 5% of budget must be spent on Irish-language media
In 2022, retailers on ecommerce platform Shopify started to report unusual activity from Ireland
Without use of local data planned product would be ‘second-rate experience’, says Facebook owner
AI assistants, training simulations and data tracking boost developers
Politics has always been a performance, but performative violence - abuse as content creation - is something new, at least at the scale that the anecdotal data suggests. We are now in a dangerous era of hybrid online-offline political violence
Sinn Féin spent €166,800 with Meta and Google, with Fine Gael’s online advertising costing €75,900 and Fianna Fáil spending €74,900 over three months
Follow these steps if you want to object to your data and posts being used
Hugh Linehan: The link economy is dying, and with it an entire ecosystem that supported content creation and communication is coming to an end
Commissioner ‘not convinced’ online giant has done enough to mitigate risks to physical and mental health of young people from Facebook and Instagram
Diversity, equity and inclusion programmes are implemented in a spirit of political correctness and woke
Building on East Wall Road being offered to the market on behalf of receivers at a 65 per cent discount to 2018 sale price
Meta says users in European Economic Area can not raise funds for charity on its platforms beyond June with some restrictions already in place
The likely message from the leading companies is: be patient
Emer McLysaght: This tainted emoji has tormented so many for so long. Why then, do I now find myself softening towards it?
Truth Social is still being valued at $4.5bn or more than 1,000 times sales
Unlike Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Alphabet’s YouTube has not been blocked in Russia
Researchers say entrepreneurs often ignore the early warning signs of failure as they cling to common myths about starting a business
Donald Trump’s social media network is trading at valuations that make some of the most successful listed businesses in history look pedestrian
Irish mariner is at the heart of much of today’s subsea cable network but we no longer have the capability to monitor and defend it
Owner ByteDance is on track to overtake Facebook owner Meta as the world’s largest social media company by sales
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Disruption for hundreds of thousands saw up to 550,000 reports of outages at peak of incident
Spend some time with younger people and the evidence of dopamine culture is everywhere
Facebook and Instagram owner has said it would no longer pay local media for their material following a recent €120m deal
Meta has just announced its first ever shareholder dividend, perhaps placating investors, but nevertheless the tech giant likely has a difficult time ahead
Meta representatives among those to attend roundtable meeting with Government
Results and share price performance of top stocks has been very different in recent times
In its early days, it offered an optimistic vision. But the picture soon darkened and disregard for potential harms has been a recurring feature
Cory Doctorow criticises Irish regime in FT article
We need to prevent our online future from concentrating further into the hands of a few billionaires and their mega-companies
Switch your ‘default setting’ to real life with social media somewhere you visit instead of the place you live
Burden of protecting children online cannot fall exclusively on parents - Big Tech must stop prioritising profit over child safety
Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg apologises to families hurt by social media
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