Media regulator begins crackdown on world’s leading social media giants hosting illegal content

Coimisiún na Meán has given companies including Meta, YouTube and X, formerly Twitter, four weeks to tell it how they are fulfilling their obligations. File photo

Ireland’s media regulator has begun a crackdown on the world’s leading social media giants hosting illegal content in a move that could lead to fines worth billions of euro.

Coimisiún na Meán has given companies including Meta, YouTube and X, formerly Twitter, four weeks to tell it how they are fulfilling their obligations, before it takes further action.