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Moderated Content

Moderated Content from Stanford Law School is podcast content about content moderation, moderated by assistant professor Evelyn Douek. The community standards of this podcast prohibit anything except the wonkiest conversations about the regulation—both public and private—of what you see, hear and do online.

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00:36:50

The Election on Earth 3817

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2024/11/01

Alex and Evelyn talk about what has been happening on social media, and the discourse about what has been happening on social media, in the run up to the 2024 US Election, how it compares to past US elections, and what to watch in the aftermath.

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00:47:53

Elon Musk's Six Wolves (And Character Limits)

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2024/10/02

Alex and Evelyn sit down with New York Times technology reporters Ryan Mac and Kate Conger to talk about their new book on Elon Musk's acquisition (and destruction) of Twitter, Character Limit, and where they think Musk goes from here.

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01:07:31

MC LIVE 9/27

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2024/09/27

Alex and Evelyn repeat the now-annual tradition of recording the podcast in front of probably their entire active listener base. They are joined by David Thiel, Brian Fishman, and Daphne Keller, to say goodbye to Theirry Breton and RT's accounts on Meta, talk about Zuckerberg's retreat from politics, and all the developments in the land of the First Amendment and platform regulation.

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00:47:10

Brazil Bans Elon Musk's X

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2024/09/13

Alex and Evelyn are joined by Carlos Affonso Souza, a Professor of Law at Rio de Janeiro State University and the Director of the Institute for Technology & Society in Rio de Janeiro, to talk about Brazil's ban of X, the local legal and political context, and how this is similar or different to other show downs between regulators and American tech platforms.

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00:55:46

The Arrest of Telegram's CEO

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2024/08/30

Alex and Evelyn discuss the arrest and charges against Telegram's CEO, Pavel Durov, in France, what we do and don't know, and what it means for the future of platform regulation, with Frédérick Douzet, Professor at the French Institute of Politics and the director of GEODE, and Daphne Keller, director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center.

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00:57:53

News Update 8/13: DDoS Attacks Everywhere

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2024/08/14

Alex and Evelyn talk about Trump's return to X and other platforms, Thierry Breton's attempt to make it all about him, the hack and leak of Trump's campaign, the FBI's new rules around communicating with platforms about foreign interference, Apple imposing its 30% commission on Patreon, and a small little sporting event that happened recently.

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00:52:37

The Supreme Court's Netchoice Ruling

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2024/07/02

Evelyn sat down with Professor Genevieve Lakier, of the University of Chicago Law School, to discuss the Supreme Court's decision regarding the Texas and Florida social media laws. Not the worst opinion the Supreme Court issued on July 1, but predictably there's a lot to complain about anyway.

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00:39:44

The Supreme Court's Jawboning Decision

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2024/06/27

The Supreme Court's decision in Murthy v. Missouri is finally here! Evelyn sat down with Professor Genevieve Lakier, of the University of Chicago Law School, to discuss the good, bad and ugly of the opinions.

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00:41:48

News Update 6/25: We're Supposed to be the Good Guys

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2024/06/26

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:The attention grabbing 404 Media headline “Has Facebook Stopped Trying?” could be on to something. Alex discusses significant disinvestment in trust and safety at Facebook with lots of junk spreading (such as AI-generated Shrimp Jesus) and a sextortion challenge. - Jason Koebler/ 404 MediaYouTube announced it is testing a feature for users to add notes under videos with context or fact

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00:46:25

Moderated Content Book Club

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2024/06/13

Alex and Evelyn sit down with the authors of two recently released books about our online information ecosystem and what to do about it: Annalee Newitz, author of Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, and Renee DiResta, author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality.

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00:47:34

News Update 5/31: Hot Pod Summer

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2024/06/01

Alex and Evelyn talk about OpenAI's first threat intel report, California's flurry of AI regulations, the latest on the TikTok ban bill, and a Downunder Special Segment.

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00:44:22

News Update 5/3: An Entirely Substanceless Episode

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2024/05/04

Alex and Evelyn discuss the TikTok ban bill, the EU's investigation into Meta for violations of the DSA, the passage of the REPORT Act, and the Supreme Court's denial of a stay of Texas' age verification law.

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00:37:08

Stanford Internet Observatory's CyberTipline Report

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2024/04/23

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by Stanford Internet Observatory’s Shelby Grossman to discuss SIO’s just-released report on the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Online Child Safety Ecosystem. Read the report here.SIO is also calling for presentation proposals for its annual Trust and Safety Research Conference. Proposals are due April 30. Details are here: https://io.stanford.edu/conferenceJoin the conversation and connect with Evelyn and Alex on your favorite social media platform

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00:51:46

Kate Starbird on the Changing Online Landscape and......

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2024/04/08

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by University of Washington professor Kate Starbird to discuss research on election rumors.Kate Starbird is an associate professor at the University of Washington in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering where she is also a co-founder of the Center for an Informed Public. - University of WashingtonHouse Judiciary Committee Kate Starbird interview transcriptHouse Judiciary Committee Alex Stamos interview transcriptSports CornerNoted

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01:10:06

MC 3/29: It's the Best of Times, It's the Worst of...

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2024/03/29

Alex and Evelyn talk about X's lawsuit against CCDH for writing about hate speech on X being thrown out this week, and online rumors about Kate Middelton and the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse, and what they say about the health of our online information ecosystem. Then Brandon Silverman, cofounder and former CEO of CrowdTangle, joins to talk about the state of platform transparency tools in the wake of Meta's announcement that it is going to be shutting the tool down.

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00:57:54

The Supreme Court Hearing on Jawboning

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2024/03/20

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek is joined by Professor Genevieve Lakier of the University of Chicago Law School to discuss the Supreme Court oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri. For one of their previous conversations on this topic, listen to this episode from September last year talking about the 5th Circuit’s decision in the case.They also discuss Stanford’s amicus brief in the case, and the Stanford Internet Observatory’s blog post summarizing factual errors that have pervaded the case.Join the

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00:56:47

News Update 3/11: Congress Agrees More than We Do on...

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2024/03/11

Alex and Evelyn discuss the latest bill to ban TikTok and its many flaws; the Gemini image-generation public relations crisis; Apple's fight-picking in Europe; and Texas and Florida's latest great attempts to regulate online speech.

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00:53:14

The NetChoice cases reach the Supreme Court

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2024/03/02

Alex and Evelyn are joined by Moderated Content's Supreme Court correspondent Daphne Keller to talk about the oral argument in the NetChoice cases this week and what the Supreme Court justices seem to be thinking about whether and how states can regulate internet platforms.

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00:52:05

News Update 2/16: The Boy Who Cried Deepfake?

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2024/02/17

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Is the deepfake apocalypse finally here? Alex and Evelyn discuss the recent robocalls impersonating President Biden ahead of the New Hampshire primary and sexually explicit fake images of Taylor Swift that spread on X, resulting in the platform blocking searches for one of the most famous people in the world.Let’s Get MetaMeta will start labeling AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram and

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00:46:34

The Legal & Technical Challenges of...

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2024/02/10

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos talk to Riana Pfefferkorn and David Thiel of the Stanford Internet Observatory about the technical and legal challenges of addressing computer-generated child sexual abuse material. They mention: Riana’s new paper on the topic, “Addressing Computer-Generated Child Sex Abuse Imagery: Legal Framework and Policy Implications” - Riana Pfefferkorn / LawfareDavid’s report documenting Child Sexual Abuse Material in a major dataset used to train AI models - David

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