Images of hundreds of Irish teenage girls are being used on sordid Twitter accounts without their knowledge or consent. Girls - some as young as 13 - are pictured on highly objectifying Irish and British Twitter accounts. Last month, the Irish Examiner reported on disturbing Twitter accounts, featuring stolen photos of more than 60 teenage girls from Cork captioned with degrading and highly sexualised language. Many of the girls whose images were posted without their consent to the most recent Twitter account are from the north Dublin area. Ms Blackell and multiple organisations under the leadership of the Children's Rights Alliance are currently lobbying the Government to amend draft online safety legislation to include a Digital Safety Commissioner whose office would hold media companies to account and enforce online safety regulations.

Source: Irish Examiner June 15, 2020 01:41 UTC