An Oireachtas Committee has stopped short of recommending a blanket social media ban for under-16s, saying it would “unlikely provide a comprehensive solution to the harms experienced by children online”. The Joint Committee on Children and Equality instead calls for tougher regulations, safer platform design, robust age verification and a major investment in digital and
Finland has updated its national Media Literacy Education Policy in response to the rise in artificial intelligence, algorithms and information influencing activities changing the media world. Published in May 2026, this is the third iteration of the Finnish Media Literacy Education Policy. The first iteration, Good Media Literacy: National Policy Guidelines 2013–2016, focused on children
Ireland’s electoral processes face growing digital threats that are outpacing its regulatory development, a new report by the Centre for Justice and Law Reform warns. Titled Safeguarding Irish Election Integrity in the Era of Emerging Digital Threats, the report acknowledges the country’s regulatory response to emerging digital risks has improved in recent years. However, Ireland
Global Media and Information Literacy Week returns on 24 October 2026, and Media Literacy Ireland wants people across the country to take part. The annual event, which raises awareness of media and information literacy (MIL) and runs until 31 October, is hosted by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The theme for this
Scams are no longer an occasional nuisance. They are a daily reality – and most people still do not know how to respond when one lands in their inbox, according to new research from FraudSMART, the fraud awareness initiative led by Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI). Published on 14 September 2026, the research showed
Are you interested in delivering media and information literacy training to communities across Ireland? Media Literacy Ireland (MLI) in collaboration with EDMO Ireland is launching an exciting new media literacy training programme and we are looking for potential trainers.
by Dr Stefanie Havelka, Assistant Professor, College of Social Sciences and Law/School of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin AILiFE+ (Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Inclusion, Futures and Employment) is funded by Research Ireland and led by researchers at the School of Information and Communication Studies at UCD, in partnership with Independent Living Movement Ireland (ILMI). The
by Cantivia Artificial intelligence is growing increasingly powerful every day. These tools are cheap, fast, and highly sophisticated, and they are reshaping how disinformation and deepfakes spread. Our question was: could we fight against this prominent threat with our own set of AI-powered cybersecurity tools? We are Cantivia, an Irish research group founded by three secondary-school