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On 13 November 2024, the Irish national media regulatory authority, Coimisiún na Meán (the Commission), announced that it had determined that TikTok, X and Instagram were "exposed to terrorist content". The decision was reached in accordance with its Decision Framework on Hosting Service Provider Exposure to Terrorist Content published in June 2024. The Decision Framework defines "terrorist content", in its introduction, as content that incites, solicits, threatens or instructs on the commission of terrorist offences. A longer, more detailed definition is included...

The Irish regulator, Coimisiún na Meán (the Commission), adopted the final Online Safety Code (the Code) on 10 October and published it on 21 October, completing the Commission's overall online safety framework. This framework makes digital services accountable for how they protect users, and in particular children, from harm online. It comes in response to Section 139K of the Broadcasting Act 2009, and is designed to ensure that VSP providers take reasonable steps to provide the protections set out in Article 28b(1)(a), (b) and (c) and Article 28b(2), including the measures...

On 27 September 2024, the Irish Minister for Justice commenced Part 7 of the Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2024, which amends the Broadcasting Act 2009, to designate Comisiún na Meán (“the Commission”), the Irish media regulator, as the competent national authority under Regulation (EU) 2021/784 on addressing the dissemination of terrorist content online (“the Terrorist Content Online Regulation”). As a result of this commencement, the Commission is now empowered to investigate and sanction infringements...

On 12 September 2024, Coimisiún na Meán (“the Commission”), the Irish media regulatory authority, announced the commencement of a formal review of online platforms’ systems to ensure that platforms are complying with their obligations under Articles 12 and 16 of the EU Digital Services Act (“DSA”). Under Article 12 of the DSA, providers of intermediary services (mere conduits, caching services and hosting services) are obliged to designate a single point of contact to enable users to communicate directly and rapidly with them by electronic means and in a user-friendly...

On 20 June 2024, the High Court of Ireland confirmed the designation by Coimisiún na Meán (the Commission), the Irish media regulator, of online platforms Reddit and Tumblr as video-sharing platform (VSP) services. Under the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act of 2022 (OSMR Act), the Commission was granted the power to designate online services as VSPs, to which the online safety code to be drafted by the Commission may apply. The Commission issued ten designation notices (Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Udemy, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, Tumblr and Reddit) at the end of 2023,...