Derek Bowler

Derek Bowler is an Irish journalist. He is the Head of Social Newsgathering at the European Broadcasting Union.
Career
Bowler studied journalism and New Media at the University of Limerick.
During his time at UL, Bowler served as Chief Reporter, and later as Editor-in-Chief of the annual newspaper The Limerick Voice.
He also co-hosted the rock/metal radio show Transmission on ULFM.
Bowler joined the Dublin-headquartered social newsgathering agency Storyful in 2013.
In April of 2016 documentary entitled GLITCH: Irish Media's Unethical Use of User-Generated Content an investigation by Bowler uncovered how Irish news outlets Benchwarmers.ie and then then broadcaster commercial broadcaster TV3 had misused social media content content for financial gain.
Addressing the European Parliament in Brussels on 27 September, 2018, Bowler called on news organisations to collaborate to tackle misinformation.
At the World Forum for Democracy at the European Council in Strasbourg on 6 November 2019, Bowler accused Facebook, Twitter and Google of not fully engaging with Public Service Media to tackle misinformation on their platforms in a meaningful way, questioning the letigamacy of the Facebook Journalism Project.

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