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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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All Episodes

00:45:52

MC Weekly Update 7/4: Trivial Pursuits

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2023/07/05

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Twitter CornerTwitter continues to break its product, this time by limiting how many tweets people can see and requiring people to log in to view anything. Advertisers must be thrilled! - Aisha Counts/ Bloomberg News, Ashley Capoot/ CNBC, Ramishah Maruf/ CNN, Amanda Silberling/ TechCrunch, Tamia Fowlkes, Julian Mark/ The Washington PostLinda Yaccarino, the “CEO,” belatedly weighed in on day

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00:44:43

MC Weekly Update 6/27: Cage-free Eggheads (Are Men...

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2023/06/27

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:A new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory and Thorn, a nonprofit working to counter online child sexual exploitation, examines the problem of increasingly realistic images generated with freely available tools to create sexual abuse material. - Issie Lapowsky/ The New York Times, @det@hachyderm.ioThe mutiny in Russia unfolded in real time on Telegram with unreliable information

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00:37:17

MC Weekly Update 6/19: The Landed Gentry

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2023/06/19

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Elon Musk’s drastic layoffs, cost saving, and price raising measures were an inspiration for him as some of the most active users of his site went on strike, taking some of the largest subreddit forums private in protest against the changes. - David Ingram/ NBC NewsHuffman is trying to force changes against the will of his user base by claiming he represents the

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00:39:24

An Investigation into Self-Generated Child Sexual...

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2023/06/12

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) Research Manager Renée DiResta and Chief Technologist David Thiel to discuss a new report on a months-long investigation into the distribution of illicit sexual content by minors online.Large Networks of Minors Appear to be Selling Illicit Sexual Content OnlineThe Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) published a report last week with findings from a months-long investigation into the distribution of illicit

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00:41:35

MC Weekly Update 5/6: Good luck, Linda!

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2023/06/05

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Stanford Internet Observatory research discovered serious failings with Twitter’s detection and removal systems for child abuse content. - Alexa Corse/ The Wall Street Journal, @stanfordioTwitter CornerIn another welcome gift on Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino’s first day, leaked documents show Twitter’s ad revenue is down nearly 60% from last year. - Ryan Mac, Tiffany Hsu/ The New York TimesFour

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00:39:08

MC Weekly Update 5/22: Fizzers and Booms

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2023/05/22

Alex and Evelyn discuss the Supreme Court decisions in Gonzalez and Taamneh; Montana passing its state-wide TikTok ban and the immediate legal challenge filed against it; Meta's $1.3 billion dollar fine under the GDPR; OpenAI's charm offensive; and just another Monday at Twitter.

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00:36:41

MC Weekly Update 5/15: Turkish Non-delights

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2023/05/15

Play the sad trombone 5 times for this week's Twitter Corner: Musk censors political content at the behest of the Turkish Government in the final days of a close and historically important election; Linda Yaccarino is announced as the new CEO; Tucker Carlson announces he's going to stream his new show to Twitter; the platform announces not-so-encrypted messaging; and continues its ad hominem content moderation practices. Also: Singapore, Pakistan, Russia all crack down on internet freedom, and the

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00:28:47

MC Weekly Update 5/8: Solving the Head of State Problem

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2023/05/08

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Pornhub and other pornography websites owned by MindGeek are blocking access for users in Utah with a video message protesting an age verification law that went into effect this past week. - Brian Fung/ CNN, Jonathan Edwards/ The Washington Post, Samantha Cole/ Vice NewsIn completely unrelated news, VPN downloads spiked dramatically in Utah. - Cristiano Lima/ The Washington PostThe adult

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00:29:11

MC Weekly Update 5/1: Flops and VLOPs

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2023/05/01

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Twitter CornerAs we predicted, Musk is complying with more government take-down orders than Twitter used to. - Russell Brandom/ Rest of World Don't expect more reporting though, Twitter has stopped sharing takedown orders with Lumen, which is how this data was compiled. - @lumendatabaseIt’s okay though, we have… this? What is this? Is this supposed to be a transparency report? -

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00:44:27

MC Weekly Update: Elon Musk JD Program False...

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2023/04/24

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Stanford Internet Observatory Research Scholar Riana Pfefferkorn joins the show to discuss the latest developments in child safety policy on Capitol Hill. The EARN IT Act and STOP CSAM Act were officially introduced with civil liberties and online privacy advocates raising concerns. - Joe Mullin/ Electronic Frontier Foundation, Sophia Cope, Andrew Crocker, Mario Trujillo/ Electronic Frontier

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00:43:50

MC Weekly Update 4/17: TikTok Boom!

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2023/04/18

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:TikTok CornerThe Montana state legislature passed a statewide TikTok ban that prohibits app stores from making downloads available and bars the company from operating in the state. Republican Governor Greg Gianforte is expected to sign the bill into law, but legal challenges will likely prevent the bill from going into effect early next year. - John Perrino/ Tech Policy Press, Brian Fung/

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00:30:47

MC Weekly Update 4/10: Leopards Eat Faces

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2023/04/11

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Twitter had a ridiculous week, even by Twitter's new standards.A senior lawyer working on FTC compliance issues resigned. We can't imagine why. - Ryan Mac, Kate Conger/ The New York Times Germany is gearing up to fine Twitter under its NetzDG law for a systemic failure to remove illegal hate speech. Fines could exceed €50 million, but it’s the first Musk heard of this. - Natasha Lomas/

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00:30:50

MC Weekly Update 4/3: Behold, The Algorithm (or,...

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2023/04/04

Twitter is (partially) open sourcing its recommendation algorithm. In this special episode, Evelyn and Alex are joined by New York University Research Associate Professor Sol Messing to talk through what he found in the code.Twitter CornerMusk is now the most followed person on Twitter, passing former President Barack Obama. Hope it was worth every cent! - Emma Roth/ The VergeTwitter verification is officially pay-to-play as the platform began to slowly remove legacy blue ticks on April Fools’ Day

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00:30:04

MC Weekly Update 3/27: Shou Chew's Show Hearing

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2023/03/27

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:The TikTok Tick TockOf course, we had to lead with the TikTok hearing. CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee during a five-hour grilling last Thursday. There was bipartisan support for comprehensive data privacy and protection legislation, a TikTok ban or restrictions, and children’s online safety policy. - Ashley Gold/ Axios, Gopal Ratnam/ Roll Call, Cat

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00:28:06

MC Weekly Update 3/20: He's baaaaack!

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2023/03/20

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:The TikTok Tick TockThe Department of Justice is investigating TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, for surveilling American users, including journalists. - Emily Baker-White/ Forbes, Glenn Thrush, Sapna Maheshwari/ The New York TimesThe Biden administration is pushing for ByteDance to divest from TikTok or face a U.S. ban. - David McCabe and Cecilia Kang/ The New York Times, John D

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00:39:00

MC Weekly Update 3/13: Extremely Persuasive Dance...

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2023/03/14

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Riana Pfefferkorn weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Update on last week’s segment on Law Enforcement Data Requests:California passed a law last year that seeks to block warrants requesting information about abortions from tech companies. - Andrea Vittorio/ Bloomberg LawCalifornia lawmakers are looking at ways to stop dragnet reverse warrants and keyword search warrants. - Tonya Riley/ CyberScoopThe FTC Takes on TwitterThe Federal Trade

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00:52:28

MC Weekly Update 3/6: A "Comprehensive" Episode

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2023/03/06

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:TikTok bans accelerated with Canada and the EU’s diplomatic arm joining U.S. states and other government agencies in banning the app from devices and networks as the White House set a 30 day deadline for federal agencies to block and remove TikTok. - Christopher Nardi/ National Post, Paul Vieira/ The Wall Street Journal, Stuart Lau, Laurens Cerulus/ Politico, David Shepardson/ ReutersThe

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00:28:35

MC Weekly Update 2/27: APIns and APOuts

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2023/02/28

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Meta released its latest quarterly adversarial threat report, outlining influence operations it took down that were linked to Russia, Serbia, Cuba, and Bolivia. - Ben Nimmo, Nathaniel Gleicher/ Meta, Renée DiResta/ @noUpside, Alex Stamos/ @alexstamosMore: Alex and Evelyn are among those warning that the Q4 2022 report might mark the last time Meta and Twitter collaborated on addressing

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00:36:18

Tech Law SCOTUS Superbowl Second Half: Taamneh

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2023/02/25

Evelyn speaks with Moderated Content's Supreme Court correspondent Daphne Keller again to discuss the oral arguments in Twitter v. Taamneh, and the big elephant that was missing from the courtroom.

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00:26:29

Tech Law SCOTUS Superbowl First Half: Gonzalez

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2023/02/22

Evelyn speaks with Moderated Content's Supreme Court correspondent Daphne Keller, director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center, to discuss their quick takes on the Supreme Court oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google.

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