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Student being blackmailed ask court to order META to take down Instagram account

A third-level student wants the High Court to order the removal of "fake and defamatory" material posted by an Instagram account holder who has allegedly been blackmailing him and sending altered sexualised images to his contacts. The student, who ...

06 May 2023 at 08:52

National News

Meta Ireland to cut about 490 jobs

Facebook owner Meta is to make approximately 490 full-time employees redundant across its Irish operations. The roles are being cut from a number of teams including finance, sales, marketing, analytics, operations and engineering. Employees at ...

24 May 2023 at 15:05

National News

Latest Meta jobs losses in Ireland will be ‘relatively small’, Taoiseach says

The latest round of job cuts by tech giant Meta will result in a “relatively small” number of redundancies at its Irish operations, the Taoiseach has said. Leo Varadkar expressed sympathy with those set to lose their jobs but he insisted that ...

15 Mar 2023 at 15:59

National News

Facebook announces its new futuristic name

The company Facebook has announced its new name change in a bid to re-brand the company and diverge it from being known as just a social media platform. Speaking at his companies Facebook Connect conference on Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg ...

29 Oct 2021 at 11:12

National News

Use of Irish writers’ work for AI training has ‘profound implications’ – union

A group of Irish writers has called on the government to protect their work from AI technologies. The government said it is working to implement an EU law on AI that is due to come into force later this year, while Meta said its AI model ...

17 Apr 2025 at 20:16

National News

Supermac's Instagram and Facebook accounts suspended over April Fool's joke

Supermac's has found itself embroiled in a trademark dispute with the GAA following an April Fools' joke gone awry. The chain's social media platforms, including Instagram and Facebook, have been abruptly taken offline by Meta, the ...

04 Apr 2024 at 13:35

National News

No ‘early warnings’ of further job cuts in tech sector – Leo Varadkar

The Taoiseach has said there are no “early warnings” of further job cuts in the technology sector this year despite a slowdown in recent months. Leo Varadkar said the Government will be monitoring “very closely” the performance of ...

04 Jan 2023 at 00:01

National News

Nora Quoirin’s parents settle lawsuit over Facebook posts

The parents of Nora Quoirin, a French-Irish schoolgirl from London whose body was found near a Malaysian jungle resort during a family holiday, have settled a case against Facebook. Lawyers for the social media giant, trading as ...

20 Jul 2022 at 12:53

Arts & Entertainment

Facebook fixes issue with its feed

Facebook has fixed a problem with its feed after confirming they were working to sort the issue after many users reported seeing waves of posts unrelated to their interests. On Wednesday morning, Facebook users around the world ...

24 Aug 2022 at 12:13

National News

WhatsApp fined €5.5m by Ireland’s data watchdog

WhatsApp has been hit with a €5.5 million fine by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) for breaches of the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rules. The penalty was described as “administrative” and is relatively ...

19 Jan 2023 at 15:20

National News

Facebook parent company fined 265 million euro by Irish data watchdog

Tech giant Meta has been fined 265 million euro by Ireland’s data protection watchdog for breaching EU data privacy laws. The Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued the sanction against the Facebook parent company for ...

28 Nov 2022 at 16:46

National News

NHS trusts passed on private patient information to Facebook – report

NHS trusts shared the private information of patients with Facebook, an investigation by The Observer has revealed. A probe by the newspaper found a covert tracking tool was being used by the websites of 20 NHS trusts ...

28 May 2023 at 06:53

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