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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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00:40:56

Big Tech's Big Tobacco Moment?

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2024/02/03

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos talk about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Tech CEOs about “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.” They mention: The Stanford Internet Observatory’s work on Self-Generated CSAM - David Thiel, Renée DiResta and Alex Stamos / SIOThe REPORT Act - Riana Pfefferkorn / Tech Policy PressModerated Content is produced in partnership by Stanford Law School and the Cyber Policy Center. Special thanks to John Perrino for research and

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00:54:40

MC 1/19: Casey Newton On His Holiday Reading List

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2024/01/20

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by Casey Newton of Platformer and Hard Fork to talk about his decision to move his newsletter off of Substack. Casey explains his decision here: Why Platformer is leaving SubstackAnd talks about it on his podcast here: Why Casey Left SubstackModerated Content is produced in partnership by Stanford Law School and the Cyber Policy Center. Special thanks to John Perrino for research and editorial assistance.Like what you heard? Don’t forget to

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00:53:52

MC Weekly Update 12/26: The Show Must Go On

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2023/12/28

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Stanford Internet Observatory’s David Thiel wrote a report documenting Child Sexual Abuse Material in a major dataset used to train AI models - David Thiel / SIO; Samantha Cole / 404 MediaLots of DSA news from the EU:Three new platforms have been designated Very Large Online Platforms – how did the adult sites get overlooked before? Woops! Jon Porter / The VergeThe Commission has announced a

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00:36:07

MC Weekly Update 12/15: Nonsense Statistics

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2023/12/15

Alex and Evelyn discuss US military information operations, Threads testing ActivityPub integration, ridiculous statistics about TikTok, YouTube Magic Dust, the Meta Oversight Board moving with all deliberate speed, and First Amendment retaliation claims.

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00:44:55

MC Weekly Update 12/4: The Chip Crunch Problem

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2023/12/04

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Elon Musk told advertisers to go f*** themselves in an interview with Jona–... sorry, Andrew Ross Sorkin of the NYT. Is this a good business strategy? - Kate Conger and Remy Tumin / The New York Times Linda doing clean-up on Aisle Elon - Linda Yaccarino / XMeta is still algorithmically promoting child sexual abuse material on its platforms. - Jeff Horwitz and Katherine Blunt / WSJThey say

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00:45:28

MC Weekly Update 11/21: ClosedAI (Happy Thanksgiving!)

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2023/11/21

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:In one of the most surprising (and rapidly developing) tech stories of the year, Sam Altman was ousted as CEO of OpenAI. The reasons are still unclear, and the story still changing as we were recording. But at least partially the story is about AI safety, and what it means to pursue responsible development of AI - Karen Hao and Charlie Warzel / The AtlanticMeta is advocating for online safety

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00:45:05

MC Weekly Update 11/15: The Big Game

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2023/11/16

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Alex participated in the fifth Senate AI Insight Forum focused on AI and its impact on elections and democracy. It turns out politicians can be reasonable and bipartisan when the cameras are off. - Oma Seddiq/ Bloomberg Law, Gabby Miller/ Tech Policy Press, Cristiano Lima/ The Washington Post, Christopher Hutton/ Washington Examiner, Office of Majority Leader Chuck SchumerLabel Your AIMeta

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00:39:14

MC Weekly Update 10/30: Warning, This Podcast Might...

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2023/10/30

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence today. The sweeping EO includes standards setting for generative AI watermarking and red teaming. It will also set rules to mitigate privacy and bias risks before AI systems can be used by federal officials. - Maria Curi, Ashley Gold/ Axios, Mohar Chatterjee, Rebecca Kern/ Politico, Mohar

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00:41:13

MC Weekly Update 10/23: The Enemies of Progress

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2023/10/23

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of venture capitalism firm Andreessen Horowitz and the Netscape web browser, wrote a lengthy blog post with an ode to technology. He also manages to declare trust and safety “the enemy” in the rambling screed of more than 5,000 words. - Dan Primack/ Axios, Marc Andreessen/ Andreessen HorowitzHave you “properly glorified” technology today?Moderating the WarMeta

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00:34:39

MC 10/16: Facebook's Ex-Counterterrorism Lead on...

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2023/10/16

Alex and Evelyn talk to Brian Fishman, the former Policy Director for counterterrorism and dangerous organizations at Facebook/Meta, about the history of terrorism online, the challenges for platforms moderating terrorism, and the bad incentives created by misguided political pressure (looking at you, EU).

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00:32:38

MC Weekly Update 10/9: Social Media During War

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2023/10/09

Alex and Evelyn discuss how the horrific events in Israel over the weekend make clear how important social media is during fast-moving historical events, and how X/Twitter has fundamentally degraded as a source of information. They also discuss China's ramped up crack down on app stores, and the Supreme Court's cert grant in the Netchoice cases, that could reshape the internet.

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01:00:26

MC LIVE 9/28

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2023/10/02

Alex and Evelyn record an episode in front of probably their entire active listener base. They talk about an update on SIO's investigations into child sexual abuse material on platforms; the fight for free speech in India; the poor outlook for election integrity at X in 2024, and what this might mean for other platforms; platform transparency mandates with Daphne Keller; and challenges to age verification laws with Alison Boden, the Executive Director of the Free Speech Coalition.

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00:37:18

MC Weekly Update 9/19: The Lawyers Always Win

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2023/09/19

Alex and Evelyn discuss reporting on a proposed deal between TikTok and the US government for it to continue to operate in the country, and the broader geopolitical context of US-China relations; how to think about search-term blocking; YouTube preventing Russell Brand from monetizing his videos on its platform; the Musk stories from the week that matter; and the enjoining of the California Age Appropriate Design Code by a California judge.

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00:49:46

The 5th Circuit's Jawboning Ruling

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2023/09/11

Evelyn sits down with Genevieve Lakier, a Professor at University of Chicago Law School, to discuss the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Missouri v. Biden, narrowing but affirming a district court injunction prohibiting large parts of the federal government from communicating with platforms about content moderation.

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00:53:07

MC "Weekly" Update 9/6: We will not be silenced!

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2023/09/06

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:OpenAI published a blog promoting how the company’s most powerful large language model, GPT-4, is being used to update platform policy and enforce content moderation rules faster and more consistently than human reviewers. - Priya Anand/ Bloomberg News, Reed Albergotti/ Semafor, Simon Hurtz/ The Verge, Lilian Weng, Vik Goel, Andrea Vallone/ OpenAIDid they forget a section on the importance of

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00:38:50

MC Weekly Update 8/8: 11 Dimensional Free Speech Theory

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2023/08/08

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:X-Twitter CornerTwitter followed through on its threat to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). The rationale has changed from a violation of the Lanham Act, a federal trademark statute, to a breach of contract and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). It's still a bad idea and not at all free-speechy. - Bryan Pietsch/ The Washington Post But in a pleasant

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00:47:56

MC Weekly Update 7/31: It's Complicated

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2023/08/01

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments. They’re joined this week by NYU’s Joshua Tucker and Stanford’s Jennifer Pan to discuss new studies released from an academic research partnership with Meta on the 2020 U.S. election.The X FilesElon Musk reinstated an account that posted child sexual abuse material just a few days earlier. The account, known for spreading conspiracy theories, then criticized Musk for spreading false

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00:43:38

MC Weekly Update: Why?

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2023/07/24

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:ActivityPub Hub A new Stanford Internet Observatory report by David Thiel and Renée DiResta found a significant issue with child abuse content in the largest decentralized social media communities that make up the Fediverse. They argue that current online safety tools must be adapted for decentralized social networks. - Cristiano Lima/ The Washington PostMeta’s Threads announced future

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00:49:30

MC Weekly Update: Hanging by a Thread

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2023/07/10

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Threads v. TwitterInstagram’s Twitter competitor Threads is the fastest downloaded app, boasting more than 100 million users within five days despite pretty basic features. - Jay Peters, Jon Porter/ The VergeInstagram head Adam Mosseri said Threads will be a place for sports and entertainment over politics and news. We say good luck with that! - Rohan Goswami/ CNBC, Jay Peters/ The Verge,

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01:15:36

GovernmentPlatform Communication, Jawboning, and the...

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2023/07/08

On July 4, a district court issued an injunction prohibiting large swathes of the government from communicating with platforms about content moderation in almost any way. Evelyn sits down with Genevieve Lakier, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, to talk about the opinion, the issue of government "jawboning" of platforms, and how the First Amendment has, should and shouldn't think about this problem.

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