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Members of Brazil's Supreme Court have voted unanimously to uphold a ban on X, formerly Twitter, in the country. The temporary ban had been imposed on Friday after the social media giant refused to comply with local laws.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded a record €550,000 to a former Twitter employee who was sacked after failing to click a button in an email from Elon Musk shortly after he acquired the company. Gary Rooney, former source-to-pay director at Dublin-based Twitter International U

Social media algorithms should be disabled by default to protect people from "hateful, false and violent content", the Irish and UK governments have been told. An open letter signed by over 240 organisations has called on Taoiseach Simon Harris, UK prime minister Keir Starmer and Northern Ireland le

Coimisiún na Meán has said it is assessing Meta's compliance with the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) after concerns were raised about online death threats against the Taoiseach. A sinister threat against Simon Harris was posted to Instagram and remained live for days, even after An Gard

Elon Musk's social media company X has agreed to suspend its use of EU users' data to train an AI chatbot. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) this week launched High Court proceedings under section 134 of the Data Protection Act 2018 for the first time in order to prevent X from using EU dat

Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has launched High Court proceedings against Twitter International Unlimited Company, the Dublin-based data controller for social media platform X. The regulator is seeking an injunction preventing the company from using EU users' data to train an AI-powered

Elon Musk's social media company X, formerly Twitter, is suing a group of major advertisers for allegedly organising an "illegal boycott" shortly after his acquisition. In a bizarre video posted to X, the company's CEO Linda Yaccarino said the legal action was a response to evidence recently heard b

Meta is facing further EU action over its "pay or consent" advertising model on Facebook and Instagram on the grounds that it may breach EU consumer law. The Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Network has written to the social media giant in a co-ordinated EU action led by the French Directorate

Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is breaching the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) by allowing anyone to buy a "blue checkmark" previously reserved for notable figures, the European Commission has said. Following an in-depth investigation, the Commission has informed X of its pr

Children should be banned from using social media until the age of 16, a newly-elected Irish MEP has said. Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Fianna Fáil MEP for Ireland South and a barrister, said the European Parliament should introduce new age-verification requirements to protect children f

Meta's "pay or consent" advertising model on Facebook and Instagram does not comply with the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Commission has said. The Commission yesterday informed the social media giant of its preliminary findings that the binary choice forces users to consent to the comb

Meta has delayed plans to train AI tools on content published by Facebook and Instagram users in the EU following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). The social media giant said last Monday that its generative AI features need to be trained on European data to reflect "the div

TikTok is facing a lawsuit from a new group of French parents who believe the video-sharing platform is not doing enough to protect children online. The Algos Victima collective, backed by lawyer Laure Boutron-Marmion, aims to bring together the greatest number of families to bring TikTok before the

Seán Hurley BL examines a recent EU court ruling involving TikTok owner Bytedance. Bytedance Ltd, the multinational company behind the social media app TikTok, recently sought and was denied interim relief to suspend the European Commission’s decision designating it as a gatekeeper unde

The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether Facebook and Instagram owner Meta may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to the protection of minors. The Commission is concerned that the systems of both Facebook and Instagram, including their algorit