{"id":280751,"date":"2026-02-04T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280751\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:00:09","slug":"this-is-ireland-this-is-our-jurisdiction-key-moments-as-tds-scrutinise-social-media-executives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280751\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is Ireland, this is our jurisdiction\u2019 \u2013 key moments as TDs scrutinise social media executives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Tech bosses point to X\u2019s absence before Oireachtas Media Committee while trying to dodge blame from politicians\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770231609_837_video.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">\u2018This is Ireland, this is our jurisdiction\u2019\u00a0 &#8211; TDs grill social media executives<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Social media executives from TikTok, Google and Meta have said their rival X should have joined them at an Oireachtas committee hearing today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">X refused to attend the meeting, despite the European Commission launching a formal investigation into its AI tool Grok which had been used to generate sexualised deepfake images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tech bosses point to X\u2019s absence before Oireachtas Media Committee while trying to dodge blame from politicians \u2018This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8938,2334,15049,823,1711,61,542,60,15552,1226,43,70,251,6116,19247],"class_list":{"0":"post-280751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-alan-kelly","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","10":"tag-dail-eireann","11":"tag-facebook","12":"tag-google","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-instagram","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-maeve-mctaggart","17":"tag-meta","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-simon-harris","20":"tag-technology-news","21":"tag-tiktok","22":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}