Ireland’s youth information website has partnered with social network Twitter to launch an online safety hub to make it easier for young people to deal with internet abuse.

Ireland is no different from other European countries in relation to the level of abusive behaviour on Facebook, it emerged at an Oireachtas communications committee meeting yesterday.

Facebook’s head of safety has told a cyberbullying conference that the social network’s anti-cyberbullying standards have “come a long way” in the past four years — but “we are not here to censor content”.