Game changer?
Discrimination is happening all the time
If the wisdom of our politicians was measured by the amount of time that RTE gives them to promote their views to the nation, one would have to conclude that Paul Murphy was the greatest mind since Marcus Aurelius himself
On Thursday April 15th this year, Dr. Darina Flanagan of NPHET gave evidence to the High Court, in a case which challenged the legitimacy of Mandatory Hotel Quarantine. Her evidence was reported by the Irish Times under the headline: “Constitutional rights of women in mandatory quarantine breached, court told”
Suppose you went to a party with a group of friends, one of whom is a rather outspoken person we’ll call Ms A. After an hour or so, someone you never met before comes up to you and says, “I couldn’t help noticing that you came here with Ms A. Aren’t you concerned that her […]
An Irish-American billionaire says he has a €100 million plan to free the internet by building a blockchain-based alternative to Facebook Frank McCourt, a real estate mogul and former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, says he is willing to pour $100 million to rebuild the foundations of social media, because he says Facebook and […]
The principal songwriter for Pink Floyd has told a press event that there was “no f***king way” that he would allow social media giant Facebook to use his iconic song “Another Brick in the Wall”. Famed musician Roger Waters, who is also well-known for his outspoken political views, revealed that Facebook had written to him to ask […]
Social media platforms hold enormous potential to liberate ideas and information from the grips of national governments and media conglomerates. After all, ideas and arguments may now be publicised by just about anyone who is computer literate enough to open a Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube account. But the heavy-handed regulation of social media content by […]
Tim wrote yesterday about the wider media hypocrisy around the lab-leak story (the idea that the Coronavirus was accidentally released from a science laboratory in Wuhan, China, rather than occurring naturally in a wet market) but this particular element of the global about-face on the idea is worth some dedicated discussion: “Facebook will no longer […]
The real conspiracy theorists are probably those who insisted Covid-19 originated from a wet market.
It is generally bad media practice to write about yourself, and here at Gript, we try to avoid it. There are, however, occasions when it becomes necessary, to illustrate a broader point. Yesterday morning, the Editorial Team at Gript received a communication from Facebook. Our Facebook page – with 42,000 followers – was, we were […]
MEPs have asked the European Commission to launch proceedings against Ireland, saying GDPR rights were not enforced in a significant privacy case against Facebook, the Irish Independent reports. They want the EU to punish Ireland for what they believe was a failure to ensure privacy rights – and mishandling a high profile case taken by activist Max Schrems […]