Tough task of enforcing online safety is top priority for Coimisiún na Meán

Coimisiún na Meán, must prove itself up to the job as serious harm is being done online

Digital services commissioner John Evans, online safety commissioner Niamh Hodnett, and executive chairperson Jeremy Godfrey at a press conference to launch Coimisiún na Meán's launch their strategy statement. Picture: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie

Even in the two short years since the country’s media regulator was established, the sectors it is tasked with holding to account have changed substantially.

Critics of Twitter, who had long said it was a cauldron of misinformation and hate, could scarcely have imagined the fresh depths it would plunge to under Elon Musk’s stewardship. Emboldened by the power he wields through the White House, Musk has shown disdain for European efforts to step up regulation.