Category: Policy

As the Dáil wraps up ahead of a general election, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport, and Media has published its report on ‘the State’s response to online disinformation and media/digital literacy, including social media and fake news’.  The Committee outlined 16 recommendations relating to understanding disinformation, addressing disinformation harms, developing resilience … Read More “EDMO Ireland recommendations adopted by the Joint Oireachtas Committee on media” »

EDMO Ireland Policy Lead, Kirsty Park, alongside Stephan Mündges from the GADMO hub presented results from the first CoP Monitor report to the European Regulators Group for Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) Subgroup on Countering disinformation and strengthening democracy in the digital environment. The CoP Monitor report is based on an international collaboration of 9 academics … Read More “EDMO Ireland presents CoP analysis to ERGA subgroup” »

A public consultation has opened for the National Counter Disinformation Strategy. EDMO Ireland is an invited member of the working group that is developing the strategy. Following five months of meetings and presentations, including presentations by EDMO’s Eileen Culloty and Kirsty Park, the working group came up with a scoping paper. It identifies a range … Read More “Consultation opens on the National Counter Disinformation Strategy” »

The biggest platforms claim they take the fight against disinformation seriously, however, the evidence they provide for this claim is lacking. That’s according to the CoP Monitor, a new report led by EDMO Ireland Policy Lead Dr Kirsty Park.  The project was coordinated by the Ireland and GADMO hubs and features contributions from the ADMO and … Read More “Major Platforms Disinformation Fight Under Scrutiny in new CoP Monitor Report” »