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Last month
March 2024
Man who hacked Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s Twitter account sentenced to 150 hours community service
A former parliamentary assistant to Flanagan admitted to sending the post in the early hours of 28 September, 2020.
Updated 25 Mar
31.4k
Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for almost $130 million in unpaid severance
4 Mar
9.2k
This year
2024
X tells private Oireachtas hearing it will abide by Irish hate speech laws
Updated 21 Feb
8.5k
X reactivates Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya's account after briefly suspending it
Updated 20 Feb
13.7k
How Elon Musk has courted Ireland's far-right by taking aim at the government's hate speech laws
10 Feb
17.0k
High Court action brought by senior Irish-based X employee against company is settled
1 Feb
11.7k
Meta would only meet politicians if Oireachtas hearing was private (but here's what they said anyway)
31 Jan
8.2k
6
‘Elmo is glad he asked!’: Sesame Street character’s post on X results in outpouring of dread
31 Jan
18.5k
29
Why X has moved to block searches for Taylor Swift after an AI-related controversy
29 Jan
14.3k
Posts targeting migrants remained online during riots despite 5pm plea from online safety tsar
Niamh Hodnett was appointed last year to fight harmful content online.
Niamh Hodnett contacted major social media firms on evening of 23 November to warn about potential for violence.
Posts calling for migrants to be "killed" were shared on social platforms as riots unfolded.
Immigrant Council of Ireland warned about the proliferation of such posts and called for posters to be investigated.
29 Jan
10.1k
Senior Irish-based X employee seeks to sue Elon Musk for defamation over tweet he sent
15 Jan
16.9k
Senior Irish-based X employee files High Court case against Elon Musk
5 Jan
15.3k
Conor McGregor announces date for UFC comeback fight in Las Vegas
1 Jan
31.8k
Conor McGregor set for UFC comeback in June
1 Jan
7.3k
13
Last year
2023
Taoiseach and Tánaiste both express concerns over X after report on how it moderates content
24 Dec 2023
14.7k
Social media platform X back online after global outage
21 Dec 2023
7.0k
10
EU launches probe into Elon Musk's X over disinformation related to 7 October Hamas attack
18 Dec 2023
5.1k
31
Threads, Meta's rival to Elon Musk's X, now available in Ireland
14 Dec 2023
7.6k
38
Elon Musk's X sues American media monitoring site in Irish court
8 Dec 2023
15.9k
X responds to Justice Minister's claim that it did not engage with gardaí during Dublin riot
5 Dec 2023
22.6k
Elon Musk visits Israel amid growing accusations of antisemitism on his social media platform X
27 Nov 2023
13.8k
Elon Musk's X sues media non-profit over portrayal of site as full of antisemitism
21 Nov 2023
8.0k
Advertisers drop X after Elon Musk backs antisemitic post
18 Nov 2023
18.5k
IBM pulls ads from X after report says they appeared next to antisemitic posts
17 Nov 2023
8.5k
X fails to pay fine in Australia over not detailing plans to combat child sexual abuse content
14 Nov 2023
11.0k
20
Quiz: How much do you know about Twitter?
21 Oct 2023
21.1k
Musk's X begins charging some new users for basic features
18 Oct 2023
13.4k
37
How X, formerly Twitter, is platforming a deluge of misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war
12 Oct 2023
16.5k
X, formerly known as Twitter, strips headlines from news articles shared by users
5 Oct 2023
17.7k
50
Senior Irish-based X employee who liked tweets critical of Elon Musk halts disciplinary process
22 Sep 2023
25.1k
Musk moots Twitter paywall that could charge users 'small monthly fee'
19 Sep 2023
12.9k
53
Twitter paid out €12.7 million to redundant Dublin employees since Musk purchase
29 Aug 2023
13.5k
'Send me location': What do we know about the cage fight between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk?
9 Aug 2023
8.8k
20
X's subscription service, formerly Twitter Blue, now allows users to hide their blue ticks
3 Aug 2023
14.2k
38
Flashing X sign removed from the former Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters
1 Aug 2023
19.1k
16
San Francisco warns Musk he needs permit for giant, flashing X sign
31 Jul 2023
24.3k
38
X lives: Twitter's CEO says rebrand 'is here' and Elon Musk changes bio to X.com
24 Jul 2023
20.1k
34
All time
Arrears, medical cards, job loss: What people sought advice for online in 2013
31 Jan 2014
5.2k
5
Column: The Fine Gael revolt against abortion 'liberalisation' is misguided. Here's why.
Fiona de Londras
19 Jul 2012
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