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Meta

InvestigatesTraining AI

Asked to think like a paedophile or act suicidal: Workers training Meta's AI in Ireland speak out

Content moderators say the work they carry out is increasingly psychologically distressing because of the advent of AI

One worker self-harmed in real life after spending entire shifts writing first-person suicide-related prompts

Workers recount horrifying videos they have reviewed as part of their day jobs

Benefits such as free meals - which contract workers say made the workday more bearable - have been removed

Eimer McAuley

3 Jul

37.0k

Big shift

Widespread advertising set to be rolled out on WhatsApp for the first time

16 Jun

16.5k

InvestigatesData Centres

Where are all the data centres and why should you care?

We mapped, for the first time, all operating and planned data centres in Ireland.

The Journal Investigates examined over 25 years of planning records to pinpoint the location of data centres

Our interactive map allows you to explore Ireland’s 89 data centres as well as another 40 in development

Conor O'Carroll

14 hrs ago

20.8k

friendships

Parenting: Using the Facebook 'like' button is lazy, but I can't discuss your life in person

Margaret Lynch

24 May

7.5k

Lobbying

Meta warned minister that €200m EU fine last month would harm Irish businesses and consumers

21 May

9.9k

The Morning Lead

Children's Ombudsman hugely concerned over use of AI 'nudify' apps on images of underage girls

Teenagers have cited a ‘chilling’ effect on their online behaviour as a result of the apps.

Stephen McDermott

14 hrs ago

10.3k

European Commission

Apple and Meta slapped with combined €700m fine for breaching app store and advert rules

23 Apr

10.3k

Read The Room

Irish writers present petition to government against use of pirated books to train Meta's AI

Updated 17 Apr

12.5k

Social Media

Mark Zuckerberg defends takeover of Instagram and WhatsApp in antitrust trial

15 Apr

10.7k

Privacy Concerns

Meta says it will use public content from European users to train its AI model

14 Apr

7.9k

FactCheck

Debunked: A new conspiracy theory claims 14 countries signed a treaty to ban natural conception

11 Apr

5.4k

Whatsdat

An AI chatbot has appeared on Irish users' WhatsApp - here's what you need to know

5 Apr

95.1k

simmering tensions

Apple and Meta face big EU fines this week - and Ireland might have to collect the money

31 Mar

17.9k

FactCheck

Debunked: Irish Facebook groups inundated with housing scams

6 Mar

5.3k

instagram facebook whatsapp

Zuckerberg's Meta under Trump: 'As an American, my only option is to quit its platforms'

Elizabeth Rymut

19 Feb

8.5k

The Morning Lead

Law empowering state to tackle election disinformation on ice, as Brussels and tech firms object

Tech firms complained to the European Commission, which is also not happy with the Irish law.

The government said it would enact the law before last June's local elections - but now it has to amend it.

Misinformation about election interference spread online during last year's local and general elections.

17 Feb

9.5k

Meta

'A total con': Scam ads featuring fake Irish shops are still appearing on Facebook and Instagram

16 Feb

23.7k

Artificial Intelligence

Meta showed nearly 10,000 ads for deepfake clothes 'erasing' app to Irish users since December

18 Jan

17.6k

Mark Zuckerberg

Meta set to lay off 5% of its workforce as government gauges potential Irish impact

14 Jan

17.5k

Drumcondra

Cherry Tomato Bridge was a return to social media of old - and yes, that matters

13 Jan

27.0k

The Morning Lead

'Deep concerns' over AI 'undress' apps being advertised on Irish social media

So-called ‘nudify’ apps allow users to create deepfake naked images of any woman.

Stephen McDermott

12 Jan

24.0k

Analysis

Meta's scrapping of fact-checking in the US has emboldened disinformers; now the EU is on alert

Stephen McDermott

11 Jan

8.4k

Opinion

The truth about Meta’s broadside against fact-checkers

Susan Daly

10 Jan

6.1k

Misinformation

Meta says it is killing off its third-party fact-checking programme 'starting in the US'

7 Jan

10.5k

facebook hacks

Irish Data Protection Commission fines Meta €251m over Facebook data hacks

17 Dec 2024

6.8k

FactCheck

Debunked: A search for a man missing in Kildare is a scam using the ID of a dead American

13 Dec 2024

17.9k

InvestigatesData Crunch

Ireland's data centres turning to fossil fuels after maxing out country's electricity grid

Climate-impacting emissions are being released from data centres using off-grid generators.

Backup and emergency generators powering large data centres contributing to CO2 emissions

Majority of data centres located in Greater Dublin area, straining the electricity grid

Data centre demand fuelled by rise of artificial intelligence

Conor O'Carroll

28 Nov 2024

48.8k

122

GE2024Election Once Again

How did parties and candidates campaign via online ads in the run-up to the election announcement?

Stephen McDermott

9 Nov 2024

7.6k

Banned

Australia to introduce legislation banning children under 16 from social media

7 Nov 2024

13.3k

FactCheck

How a 'missing person' scam is luring Irish social media users using old photos of real children

A photo of an American child who was attacked by dogs was claimed to show a child found in Ireland.

Shane Raymond

20 Oct 2024

21.6k

Appeals Centre Europe

New social media appeals body which aims to resolve content disputes will be based in Dublin

8 Oct 2024

6.1k

Paul Tweed

Lawyer to the stars planning to take group action in Irish courts against Big Tech over AI

28 Sep 2024

18.8k

GDPR Breach

Data Protection Commission fines Meta €91 million over inadequate security for users' passwords

27 Sep 2024

4.5k

generative AI

What's behind the viral 'Goodbye Meta AI' message that's being shared on Instagram?

26 Sep 2024

14.7k

FactCheck

Debunked: Scam ads featuring images of Dara Ó Briain and Pat Kenny appear on Facebook

25 Sep 2024

11.4k

Teen Accounts

Teenagers on Instagram to have automatic restrictions applied under new 'Teen Accounts'

17 Sep 2024

5.0k

The Morning Lead

Scammers are using AI photos to lure Instagram users into buying fake Irish brands

Thousands of ads for fake businesses have been run in Ireland by international scammers in recent months.

Ads for clothes or accessories have used AI-generated images of people who supposedly work at the shop in question.

Pages have attracted complaints from Irish customers saying that they didn't get the products they had paid for.

16 Sep 2024

21.7k

doxxing

O'Gorman strongly criticises Coolock Says No after group publishes personal details of family

14 Sep 2024

44.0k

tech moderation

Zuckerberg says Biden administration 'repeatedly pressured' Meta to censor certain Covid content

27 Aug 2024

12.6k

Courts

High Court allows Denis O'Brien to add over 370 names to Meta defamation action

14 Aug 2024

23.1k

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