subsequently confirmed that it would attend the meeting<\/a> after the invitation was issued again by media committee chair and Labour TD Alan Kelly.<\/p>\nIn the committee meeting today, TikTok said that \u201cwhat matters is how [their policies] operate in practice and how [they] strengthen them\u201d.<\/p>\n
Their role also involves aiding with the deterrence of dangerous and criminal behaviour, they said, which involves supporting An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, and addressing underlying causes which requires a \u201cbroader cross-societal response\u201d.<\/p>\n
They \u201cproactively\u201d identify content that violates their policies upon upload \u2013 not just after content has been reported as illegal \u2013 using \u201ctechnology and human expertise\u201d, they said.<\/p>\n
The vast majority (99.6%) of videos were removed before any user reported them, according to TikTok, and 83.4% of those were removed before any views. 89.9% were removed within 24 hours of publication.<\/p>\n
Meta is expected to say that they do not allow the posting of \u201chigh-risk viral challenges\u201d, and that they \u201cprohibit people from promoting, advocating for, or encouraging participation in them\u201d.<\/p>\n
They said that they are now treating driving against incoming traffic as a \u201cprohibited high-risk viral challenge\u201d, and will remove content accordingly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Their policies prohibit users from doing or sharing anything that is unlawful or which violates their standards, they said, adding that their policies are \u201ccalibrated to the risk\u201d of content that encourages dangerous behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere a behaviour is likely to cause life-threatening injury and risks spreading as a challenge, we remove it; where content depicts dangerous driving without meeting that threshold, we restrict its visibility to users aged 18 and over,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
The company uses automated detection, including hash-matching technologies that identify similar images, as well as keyword- and hashtag-based detection for illegal or inappropriate content.<\/p>\n
Google said in their opening statement that content depicting dangerous driving, or any activity that poses \u201cimminent risk of physical injury or death\u201d, is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n
Videos on YouTube use \u201cmachine learning classifiers to rapidly and proactively detect and remove violative content\u201d. Livestreamers are verified, and under 16s can only livestream if an adult is present.<\/p>\n
The site also actively monitors online trends, to be able to \u201cproactively update our detection systems against these emerging threats\u201d.<\/p>\n
In the first quarter of 2026, over 98.5% of the videos removed from YouTube were first detected by automated systems.\n<\/p>\n
What are the laws?<\/p>\n
Under the European legal framework platforms are not liable for illegal content on their services, as long as they act promptly to remove it as soon as they become aware of it. However, platforms cannot be required to monitor all content posted to check if it is illegal, according to media regulator Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n.<\/p>\n
However, platforms must have an easy way for people to report content, and the largest platforms must actively risk assess and mitigate risks arising from how they are designed and used.<\/p>\n
Under the Online Safety Code, video-sharing platforms must restrict content that encourages behaviours detrimental to the health or safety of children, including dangerous challenges.<\/p>\n
If a platform fails to do so, large fines can be imposed.<\/p>\n
The EU Digital Services Act obliges platforms to adhere to and enforce their own terms and conditions. Where these terms prohibit content depicting criminality or promoting dangerous activities, platforms must remove that content.<\/p>\n
Recently, the EU Commission published a proposal titled the \u201cEU Kids Act\u201d, which will introduce age restrictions for social media and new obligations on platforms to implement safety by design.<\/p>\n
The Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2026 also includes a new power for Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n to issue notices to a platform seeking information about compliance.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAST UPDATE | 12 mins ago TIKTOK IS FACING a grilling at the Oireachtas media committee today, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[269006,269007,823,1711,42,542,252634,1226,43,147450,6116,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-633485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-dangerous-behaviour","tag-dangerous-driving-videos","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-headlines","tag-instagram","tag-m9-crash","tag-meta","tag-news","tag-oireachtas-committee","tag-tiktok","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633485","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=633485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}