Media regulator expects to have up to eight probes ongoing into social media platforms for rule breaches

Social media platform X is being investigated by Coimisiún na Meán under the Digital Services Act. Picture: Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images

The media regulator expects to have up to eight investigations ongoing into major online platforms for potential breaches of the rules aimed at keeping people safe online by this time next year, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Coimisiún na Meán’s digital services commissioner John Evans told the Oireachtas Media Committee that after it opened its first formal investigation earlier this month into Elon Musk-owned X, the regulator had reached a “level of maturity” to begin stepping up its enforcement action.