From staffing limitations to sheer quantity of content, could the speed of content being produced be a reason for regulators and agencies being slow to crack down and remove harmful videos and images?

In Sunday's papers, many outlets are still discussing the aftermath of the horrendous M9 crash, and the Irish Times' Jack Horgan-Jones was discussing the headlines with Pat Kenny.

From staffing issues and limitations within the social media houses, to families speaking out on the death of their children, many of the headlines this weekend are highlighting some of the reactions to the tragic accident.

During The Pat Kenny Show, the host highlighted how it's the regulators that "set the rules of play", but in many cases, people feel they move too slowly when they have to step in.

Mr Horgan-Jones replied that the slow feeling stems from the fact that "the speed at which this content is produced and proliferates is just so much faster than regulators or any agencies can can grapple with."

He shared: "I think the problem is that there's a tension between what happens in the day to day lived experience of being on these social networks and the feeling that the regulatory wheel moves so slowly and that the the safety of the online environment, the speed at which this content is produced and proliferates, is just so much faster than regulators or any agencies can grapple with.

"I know that we have these huge fining powers and everything, but these companies have a licence to print money and we have a regulatory apparatus which goes after the money, which seems sensible. But I would say, a better way to do it is to go after the licence."

Mr Horgan-Jones added that Wayne O'Connor's piece in The Sunday Independent sees him speak to former TikTok employees in Dublin who claimed the company was "lessening the degree of investment or resources they were allocating to content moderation" so staff were being "spread more thinly".

Main image: TikTok app on a phone, Picture by: PA Images