{"id":1029970,"date":"2026-08-20T08:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029970"},"modified":"2026-08-20T08:20:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:50:31","slug":"irish-lawmakers-summon-tiktok-over-videos-glorifying-dangerous-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/20\/irish-lawmakers-summon-tiktok-over-videos-glorifying-dangerous-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish lawmakers summon TikTok over videos glorifying dangerous driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A parliamentary committee has asked TikTok to explain how it removes content that &#8220;glorifies &#8230; illegal activity&#8221; on Irish roads after the head of police said young people were driving \u200con the wrong \u2060side \u2060of motorways for social media likes. <\/p>\n<p>Five male teenagers died in a crash on Sunday while driving on \u200bthe wrong side of a motorway, seriously injuring three women and a child in another \u200bcar who were travelling to Dublin Airport, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Footage purporting to be taken from the car, and from other cars engaged in dangerous activity, has been \u200bshared widely on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A parliamentary committee has asked TikTok to explain how it removes content that &#8220;glorifies &#8230; illegal activity&#8221; on Irish roads after the head of police said young people were driving \u200con the wrong \u2060side \u2060of motorways for social media likes. Five male teenagers died in a crash on Sunday while driving on \u200bthe wrong side of a motorway, seriously injuring three women and a child in another \u200bcar who were travelling to Dublin Airport, police said. Footage purporting to be taken from the car, and from other cars engaged in dangerous activity, has been \u200bshared widely on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029983,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029970\/revisions\/1029983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}