Social media platforms routinely promote extreme or false content, Oireachtas committee to hear

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue will outline that social media algorithms recommend misinformation, disinformation, and hateful content to users. File Picture.

Social media firms are "routinely promoting sensationalist, extreme, and false content" on their platforms to drive engagement, TDs will hear today.

The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is to tell TDs and senators on the Oireachtas media committee today that misinformation activity has increased in recent years, particularly in the wake of the pandemic.