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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
Facebook owner fined €251m by Irish data regulator for breaches
Meta Platforms fine tied to 2018 data breach impacting 29m Facebook accounts globally
Meta ordered to take action after Facebook found to be exposed to ‘terrorist content’
Examples of terrorist content can include photos of crime scenes glorifying terrorist acts, or posts or comments which incite, solicit or advocate for the commission of terrorist offences
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
Brussels looks into Google and Meta secret ads deal to target teens
Regulators request information after FT investigation intopartnership that skirted search giant’s rules on minors
Data centre boom under AI growth in Ireland threatening climate targets, report warns
Friends of the Earth calls for ‘moratorium on new data centres and expansion of existing ones until robust legislative framework is in place’
Advertising revenues set to hit $1tn in market dominated by technology companies
Omnicom and Interpublic in talks to merge in $30bn-plus deal to create the world’s largest advertising agency
US court upholds law that could ban TikTok
Further appeal expected for bipartisan measure targeting ByteDance-owned video app over security concerns
Meta’s Nick Clegg warns European regulation of AI threatens innovation
In conversation with US ambassador to Ireland in Dublin, Clegg said AI discussion had dwelled on ‘largely nonsensical fears’
Blame AI for your gruelling job interview
Efforts to push back against unsuitable mass applications are turning a dispiriting situation into a miserable one
Central Bank governor more cautious on large ECB rate cuts
Gabriel Makhlouf raises prospect of ‘sharp’ fall in stocks prices amid heightened technology sector valuations
Facebook parent’s Irish arm pays €900m dividend as profit rises
Social media giant sees turnover near €70bn
Sinn Féin asks Sipo if it declared previous election spending correctly
Party’s online spending has significantly decreased over the course of the general election campaign, new figures show
AI bubble: fact or fiction?
JP Morgan sanguine as rising share prices are accompanied by increased earnings among dominant ‘magnificent seven’
General election ads: Meta complaint made over alleged failure to publish data
General election Meta ads complaint made over information delay
Stealth sackings: why do employers fire staff for minor misdemeanours?
Hard line on conduct could prevent bigger lapses but may prompt claims of disguised cost savings
When it comes to following the money at election time, don’t even try
Scanned, handwritten PDFs spread across multiple institutions is not acceptable in 2024 and does not enable accountability
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
How technology created a ‘recipe for loneliness’
The rise of smartphones and social networking apps has forever changed social norms around how we communicate
Meta fined nearly €800m for breaking EU law over classified ads practices
Facebook is undermining rivals by ‘tying’ its free Marketplace services with the social network, Brussels says
Surviving a shake-up: is restructuring ever good for staff?
As companies from Amazon to Citi overhaul management, experts warn that savings from job cuts can be overtaken by unintended consequences
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
Court refuses to direct document sharing in three cases brought by former content moderators
Plaintiffs are suing their former employers and Facebook/Meta claiming they suffered serious psychological injuries
Will Wall Street allow Big Tech to make AI work?
Investors are notoriously fickle – will they give big firms the space to utilise artificial intelligence?
Amazon revenues jump on back of AI-fuelled cloud demand
Market capitalisation more than doubled over past five years from growing cloud and advertising businesses as well as expanding margins in retail
Meta, Microsoft lift AI spending, worrying Wall Street ahead of Amazon results
Spending will build out data centres to meet vast demand
Light touch regulation did not work with banks and won’t work for video sharing platforms like TikTok
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisis
Why a Donald Trump election win could signal the end of Ireland’s golden years
A Trump victory in the US presidential election would constitute a seismic shift in our overall international strategy
Meta tests facial recognition technology to protect celebrities from scams but Ireland not included in system
The company is targeting fraudsters and scammers who use the image of somebody well-known to fool people into clicking on a malicious website
Regulating social media is an impossible job but someone has got to at least try
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code is as much about what it doesn’t do as what it does
Ryanair forecasts €50m hit and job cuts as it launches airport cap case
Seen and heard: Ryanair forecasts major hit from passenger cap, Harris’s private jet bill and Meta’s sublet
Meta staff fired for misusing free food vouchers
Staff given daily meal allowances for breakfast, lunch and dinner as a perk common in Big Tech companies
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