Irish Examiner view: Bringing social media firms to heel

These companies are happy to profit from users whose posts seek to undermine the rule of law in the State. They cannot complain when they are heavily fined by State regulators upholding that rule of law

There have been concerns that users do not report illegal content because of the perception that social media companies do nothing about such reports. Picture: File

The latest instalment in the long-running saga of giant tech companies versus ordinary people arrived yesterday, with Coimisiún na Meán putting the usual suspects on notice.

TikTok, X, YouTube, Meta, LinkedIn, Temu, Pinterest, Shein, Etsy, Dropbox, Hostelworld, and Tumblr have been given four weeks to tell the media regulator how they are fulfilling specific obligations.