Jennifer Horgan: Taoiseach must meet Trump. We must always choose dialogue over virtue signalling

Micheál Martin visiting Washington DC is no endorsement of the American president or his politics, writes Jennifer Horgan

By visiting the Oval Office Micheál Martin has an opportunity to remind Trump how valuable we are to one another. File picture

To post, or not to post, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the silence of going offline or to take arms against a sea of misinformation… Hamnet aside, we’re all a bit Hamlet these days, stuck in a dilemma, painfully aware that the very platforms we use to do good are, well, inarguably bad.

Many of us have no choice but to continue using social media but posting actively supports men like Andrew Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, whose 2016 email entitled 'The Ugly' claimed that any growth on Facebook is "de facto good", even if it leads to people being harmed or killed.