Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has said technology companies have to “pony up” and face up to regulations.
Among the issues on the table is growing issues of misinformation online, particularly in the wake of Mr Martin bringing Google to the High Court over “fake adverts” that he says were used to defame him.fake adverts suggesting he was promoting cryptocurrency is one drop in a wider, treacherous ocean of misinformation.
“The numbers don’t add up in many different directions,” he said. “I think that lazy analysis that my former colleague seems to have talked himself into, it's just that - lazy analysis.“It’s a fragmented Dáil - the current Government, if we take the three constituent parties, they’re well over 40%. “Sinn Féin is always taken by the nose by the far left,” he said. “Whatever the far-left do, Sinn Féin isn’t far behind on housing, the economy.