Social media and responsibility
What also needs to be condemned is the fact that hours after the Garda clarified that the suspected attacker was an Irish man, social media such as X was still carrying comments claiming that the attacker was a 'foreigner'. Surely social media companies have a responsibility to take down comments which are clearly inaccurate and harmful?
We should all be mindful of the vulnerability of immigrants to violent behaviour by people likely to have been motivated by false and malicious social media comments. – Yours, etc,
PETER FEENEY,
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(Former press ombudsman),
Donnybrook,
Dublin 4.
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