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EDMO Ireland has been invited to participate in the upcoming Digital Services Act (DSA) Election Roundtable on Wednesday, November 13, 2025. The roundtable, convened by Ireland’s Digital Services Coordinator (DSC), aims to assess the country’s readiness to address online threats to the electoral process. The event will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders, including … Read More “EDMO Ireland to Join DSA Election Roundtable on November 13” »
EDMO has responded to the pressing need for guidelines on how to design, develop, and implement effective media literacy initiatives. While there is great demand for media literacy and an explosion of media literacy projects, it’s critically important to ensure these efforts are effective. The EDMO guidelines have been designed for use by anyone involved … Read More “EDMO launches Guidelines for Effective Media Literacy Initiatives” »
EDMO Coordinator, Dr Eileen Culloty, was invited to speak at the 2024 Public Relations Institute of Ireland (PRII) National Conference. The conference brought together more than 200 “communications professionals to hear from 20 national and global speakers and thought leaders, to discuss developing trends and learn from case studies and the latest research.” In her … Read More “EDMO Ireland Coordinator addresses disinformation and the influence industry at PRII Annual Conference” »
Over 400 young people from local Waterford schools joined a media literacy conference called ‘Dismiss the Noise’ on 16th October in Waterford City. Organisers included Waterford SLí, the Waterford Youth Information Centre and the Waterford City Libraries, and the Europe Direct Centre. EDMO Ireland’s Dr Eileen Culloty delivered the keynote on media literacy. She noted that … Read More “#DismissTheNoise: Media Literacy for Young People” »
Election Check 24 is a project supported by the Google News Initiative, aimed at fighting misinformation during Ireland’s general election. Led by PA Media, Ireland’s national news agency, it brings together news publishers and TheJournal’s fact-checkers to ensure accurate information is available to the public. PA Media’s fact-checking team, which is recognized by the International … Read More “GE24: TheJournal FactCheck team up with PA for Election Check 24” »
EDMO Ireland has been invited to co-develop a new open-access digital media literacy toolkit that will be offered to all undergraduate students at Munster Technological University (MTU) and shared across the wider technological university network in Ireland. The initiative, led by Dr Catherine Palmer at MTU, responds to growing national and international concern over the … Read More “EDMO Ireland Working on a Media Literacy Toolkit for Third-Level Students” »
EDMO Ireland Hub was cited in a recent Irish Independent report following Taoiseach Simon Harris’s call for stricter accountability from social media companies. Speaking ahead of a new binding online safety code due later this year, Mr Harris warned that company directors could be held personally responsible for harmful content hosted on their platforms. Dr … Read More “EDMO work highlighted amid Taoiseach’s call for tougher online safety rules” »
The Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media met on Wednesday 26th June for another meeting on “the State’s response to online disinformation and media / digital literacy, including social media and fake news”. Invited witnesses included officials from Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media; representatives from the Working Group … Read More “EDMO Coordinator appears at Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disinformation” »
Dr Shane Murphy from DCU FuJo examines key issues with TikTok and political advertising in light of the DSA and EU Code of Practice on Disinformation. The recent European parliamentary elections were the first to take place since the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) came into effect in February 2024. The DSA requires large social … Read More “TikTok’s Struggle with Political Advertising” »
As part of a series on the European and local elections, Dr Shane Murphy examines how narratives about voter fraud evolved, often with no regard to rules about voter eligibility. A recent article by Ciaran O’Connor, a researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, looked at how the Far Right in Ireland were laying the … Read More “Elections 2024 Analysis: Allegations of election interference” »
