Social media giants contacted by Oireachtas over protests 

Gardai confronting protesters during an anti-lockdown protest in Dublin city centre last month.

An Oireachtas Committee has written to a number of social media companies over concerns they are being used to spread misinformation and plan events in contravention of public health guidelines.

The Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht has contacted Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and TikTok following media reports that such platforms may have been used to organise and coordinate activity at an anti-lockdown event in Dublin on February 27.