The global Government Affairs team for the social media giant X, formerly known as Twitter, has sharply contradicted Justice Minister, Helen McEntee, saying her claim that the platform did not cooperate with Gardaí to remove inflammatory content during the Dublin riots is “inaccurate”.
The Minister had told the Dáil that she had been told “very clearly” by a detective that while companies like Meta and Tiktok were responding to Gardaí and engaging with them to remove “vile” social media posts as they arose X was not.
“X were not,” she claimed. “X were not. They didn’t engage. They did not fulfill their own community standards.”
She said “that is why” the government wanted to move to a situation were these companies “do not get to self-monitor”, adding that “Coimisiún na Meán had been established to make sure that these companies are held responsible” because “while some were responsible, others were not”.
However, X has now hit back, posting that the Minister’s claims in the Dáil were “inaccurate” and that they had “proactively taken action on more than 1,230 pieces of content under our rules relating to the riots”.
The Government Affairs team for X said that they “met with the Coimisiún na Meán on November 24 [the day after the riots] to discuss our response”.
They added that “The Gardaí did not make any formal requests to us until late Monday 27th November. We responded promptly. The only appeal we have received from the Gardai relating to the enforcement of our rules is for a single post.”
“We hope the Minister will clarify her remarks,” they added.
This is inaccurate. We have proactively taken action on more than 1,230 pieces of content under our rules relating to the riots.
We met with the Coimisiún na Meán on November 24 to discuss our response. The Gardai did not make any formal requests to us until late Monday 27th… https://t.co/nHGMDg45Mu
— Global Government Affairs (@GlobalAffairs) December 4, 2023
The Minister said last weekly that she would seek a meeting with X after the disturbances in Dublin. The Department has been contacted for comment.
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There is a very obvious and concerted effort to destroy X. The notion that a man with sufficient resources at his disposal to do and say whatever he damn well pleases could be allowed to go against the grain of conventional globalist wisdom, and to provide a platform for others to do likewise, is unacceptable. This vehicle of free expression of opinion and belief must be derailed by any means necessary, fair or foul.
Day after day: squeal, squeal, squeal. Keep it up little pig.
“Free speech is my right to say what you dont want to hear”
Queer eye I hope you aren’t gay, when I was growing up that was an insult and I hate to see that people are using it as an acceptable word now. The gay people in my life don’t like it. Also if the hate speech comes in the word trannie might get you a call to be door from the guards. In England woman are being harassed constantly if they don’t go along with the trans bully organizations
No, Des is right. That is literally what free speech is. You should be defending everyone’s right to say what they want. And you can also say whatever you want in return, and we figure out what’s right and what’s wrong. That’s how it works in a nutshell.
If you are confident that your view is the correct one, you should have nothing to fear.
Wanting “hate legislation” to shut down and arrest people who say things that you don’t like is nothing short of authoritarian. And it could seriously come back around to bite you in the future, if there is a government that considers what you say to be hate speech.
Giving a group of other humans (the government) the power to control what people can and can’t say is an extremely bad idea. A child could figure this out.
I got sus’ed on X once cuz I used that “T” word. How come you get to use it unhindered, cuz maybe free speech, Is allowed by one side and it the other side?
Imagine being so insecure and pathetic and so unable to construct a sensible rebuttal or substantive response to any sort of argument that you crave the censoring of words and those you do not have the ability and mental capacity to converse with. All to create a false perception to make yourself feel safe and secure………….good man
This is a huge difference in the respective accounts of what happened.
Helen McEntee needs to respond to this fundamental challenge to the accuracy of an account that she gave to the Dail.
This gov’t is more concerned about the repercussions from a migrant attack on innocent children then about their policies that lead to that attack. Shameful.