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An Irish TikToker has reportedly reached a settlement in a legal dispute with the manufacturer of the children’s toys she uses to tell soap opera-style stories involving sex and drugs. More than 2.5 million people follow @sylvaniandrama on TikTok, where Thea Von Engelbrechten posts short stori

Elon Musk's social media platform, X, played a central role in spreading misinformation and hate which fuelled racist riots across England and Northern Ireland last summer, according to a new report. Amnesty International says the platform's content-ranking algorithms enabled toxic, racist, and fals

Revenue has published new guidance on the VAT treatment of social media influencers in Ireland. There are "no special VAT rules for influencers", whose activity remains "subject to the ordinary VAT rules", the 15-page document states.

Social media platform Bluesky now has an Irish point of contact for requests under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). Bluesky previously listed a Belgian point of contact for competent authorities of the EU and EU member states and welcomed queries in English or French.

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched a further inquiry into TikTok over its transfers of European users' personal data to servers in China. The new inquiry follows a previous decision by the DPC in which the regulator imposed a €530 million fine on TikTok in connection with a

Elon Musk's social media platform X has been ordered to provide information to Coimisiún na Meán about its compliance with online safety rules. The media regulator has issued a statutory information notice to X Internet Unlimited Company, which is based in Dublin, under section 139O of

TikTok has been accused by the European Commission of breaching advertising transparency rules in the Digital Services Act (DSA). Following the launch of an investigation in February 2024, the Commission yesterday informed TikTok of its preliminary view that its advertisement repository falls short

TikTok has said it will appeal a €530 million fine imposed by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) following an investigation into transfers of EU users' personal data to China. The DPC announced the fine on Friday after finding that TikTok had violated the GDPR in respect of its transfer

TikTok has been fined €530 million by Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) following an investigation into transfers of EU users' personal data to China. The DPC, in its role as the lead supervisory authority for TikTok, launched the inquiry to examine the lawfulness under the GDPR of Tik

Tech giant Meta is facing a lawsuit in the Northern Ireland courts over its alleged use of copyrighted material to train its generative AI model. Belfast firm KRW LAW has issued pre-action correspondence to Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd on behalf of author Richard O'Rawe, who alleges serious and ongoin

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's X social media platform over its use of users' posts as AI training data. X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC), known until the start of April 2025 as Twitter Internet Unlimited Company (TIUC), was notified last week

Elon Musk's X has been ordered to hand over information about an anonymous user who made allegedly defamatory posts about Belfast solicitor Kevin Winters and others. Mr Winters, of KRW LAW, has been instructed by a number of individuals, including retired gardaí, who allege they were defamed

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has accused Meta of "silencing" a former director who was ordered this week to refrain from promoting her new book. Careless People, published this week, provides an account from Sarah Wynn-Williams of her time as Meta's director of global public policy f

More than 150 decisions have been issued so far by the Dublin-based Appeals Centre Europe (ACE), a new independent body for resolving disputes on social media platforms. ACE, certified by Coimisiún na Meán as an out-of-court dispute settlement (ODS) body under Article 21 of the EU Digi

Albania is to shut down TikTok for 12 months, blaming the social media platform for inciting violence and bullying, especially among children. The country's education minister, Ogerta Manastirliu, said that officials are in contact with TikTok on adding parental controls and age verification as well