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Ctrl-Alt-Speech

Mike Masnick & Ben Whitelaw

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly news podcast co-created by Techdirt’s Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Each episode looks at the latest news in online speech, covering issues regarding trust & safety, content moderation, regulation, court rulings, new services & technology, and more.The podcast regularly features expert guests with experience in the trust & safety/online speech worlds, discussing the ins and outs of the news that week and what it may mean for the

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55:20

Judge, Jury and Moderator

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2024/09/06

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Social networks can’t be forced to filter content for kids, says judge (The Verge)Judge Rejects Yet Another Attempt By Texas To Police Online Speech (Techdirt)Telegram apologizes for handling of deepfake porn content in S. Korea (Yonhap)Brazilian Supreme Court panel upholds X ban (Axios)Elon Musk’s Starlink backtracks to comply with Brazil’s ban on X (The Guardian)With M...

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53:03

The Platform to Prison Pipeline

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2024/08/30

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:TikTok must face a lawsuit for recommending the viral ‘blackout challenge’ (The Verge)Third Circuit’s Section 230 TikTok Ruling Deliberately Ignores Precedent, Defies Logic (Techdirt)France charges Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, releases him on €5M bail (Politico) Elon Musk’s X could face ban in Brazil after failure to appoint legal representative (The Guardian)Zuckerber...

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61:35

ChatGPT Told Us Not to Say This, but YOLO

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2024/08/23

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Daphne Keller, the Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center. They cover:Ninth Circuit Rules in Favor of NetChoice Over California’s Age Appropriate Design Code (Ninth Circuit)Governor Newsom and Attorney General Bonta on appellate court decision regarding California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (State of California)R...

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52:52

Do Not Leave a Fake Review for this Podcast

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2024/08/16

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:EU takes shot at Musk over Trump interview — and misses (Politico)Online Safety Act not fit for purpose after far-right riots, says Sadiq Khan (The Guardian)See why AI detection tools can fail to catch election deepfakes (The Washington Post)Harris campaign's Google ads rewrite news headlines (Axios)Children to be taught how to spot extremist content and fake news online...

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63:09

Should Speech Cost a GARM and a Leg?

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2024/08/09

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Bluesky adds Techdirt founder Mike Masnick to its board (TechCrunch)X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott (New York Times)WFA Shutters GARM, X Antitrust Suit Cited (MediaPost)UK faces resistance from X over taking down disinformation during riots (Financial Times)Open letter to UK online service providers (Ofcom)Google and Meta st...

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63:04

I Bet You Think This Block is About You

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2024/08/02

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Jim Jordan Demands Advertisers Explain Why They Don’t Advertise On MAGA Media Sites (Techdirt)TikTok Has a Nazi Problem (Wired)NazTok: An organized neo-Nazi TikTok network is getting millions of views (Institute for Strategic Dialogue)How TikTok bots and AI have powered a resurgence in UK far-right violence (The Guardian)Senate Passes Child Online Safety Bill, Sending It...

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60:50

Live at TrustCon 2024

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2024/07/26

In the first ever live recording of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Mike and Ben are joined at TrustCon 2024 by Dona Bellow, Platform Safety Policy at Reddit, and Alice Hunsberger, PartnerHero’s VP of Trust & Safety and Content Moderation, to round up the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, including:Meta content moderation vendors hit by global cyber outage (Reuters)Could social media support healthy online conversations? New_ Public is working on it (Nieman Lab)Pa...

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36:07

Spotlight: Modulate CEO Mike Pappas on Voice Moderation

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2024/07/23

In this sponsored Spotlight episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, host Ben Whitelaw talks to Mike Pappas, the founder & CEO of our launch sponsor Modulate, which builds prosocial voice technology that combats online toxicity and elevates the health and safety of online communities. Their conversation takes an in-depth look at how voice is becoming an increasingly important medium for online speech while technology is making more advanced voice moderation possible, and what that means for trust and ...

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53:21

Conspiracies Abhor a Vacuum

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2024/07/19

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Russia and China pounce on Trump rally shooting to undermine U.S. (Washington Post) The Gunshots Rang Out. Then the Conspiracy Theories Erupted Online (New York Times) Chaos on social media platforms after Trump shooting is a mess of their own making (CNN)Elon Musk Wants His AI Bot to Deliver the News. It Is Struggling With the Job (WSJ)Spotify's new comment fe...

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43:24

Over to EU, Elon

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2024/07/12

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Domonique Rai-Varming, Senior Director, Trust & Safety at Trustpilot. Together they cover:Amazon, Expedia and Trustpilot unite to fight fake reviews (BBC)EU charges Elon Musk’s X for letting disinfo run wild (Politico) British female politicians targeted by fake pornography (The Guardian)The hidden workers behind AI tell their stories (Netzpolitik)&nbs...

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19:23

Minisode: The Supreme Court's NetChoice Ruling

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2024/07/01

Although our hosts are both on vacation this week, we didn’t want to leave our listeners waiting too long for an update on today’s big news about online speech: the Supreme Court’s ruling in the NetChoice cases, which sends the Texas and Florida laws that would limit the ability of online platforms to moderate political speech back to the lower courts. So Mike Masnick has stepped briefly back to the microphone to join our producer, Leigh Beadon, for a quick mini episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, wh...

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55:39

A Lack of (Under)Standing

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2024/06/28

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Supreme Court Sees Through The Nonsense, Rejects Lower Courts’ Rulings Regarding Social Media Moderation (Techdirt)How Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Failed Children on Safety, States Say (New York Times)New Features to Help Protect Our Community (Snap)Trends in Financial Sextortion (Thorn/NCMEC)Teens lean on AI for mental health support (Mercury News)I Paid $365.63 to Replace 4...

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52:44

This Podcast May be Hazardous to Moral Panics

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2024/06/21

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms (New York Times)The Surgeon General Is Wrong. Social Media Doesn’t Need Warning Labels (The Daily Beast)Anthropic calls for AI red teaming to be standardized (Fortune)How small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline (Engadget)Pornhub to block five more states over age verification...

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49:21

Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation

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2024/06/14

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Meta says it won’t support suit against major child safety law (Washington Post)Obstacles to Autonomy: Post-Roe Removal of Abortion Information Online (Amnesty International)Abortion Groups Say Tech Companies Suppress Posts and Accounts (NY Times)The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled (Platformer)How Politics Broke Content Moderation (Columbia Journalism R...

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52:44

The Internet is (Still) for Porn, with Yoel Roth

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2024/06/07

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Yoel Roth, former head of trust & safety at Twitter and now head of trust & safety at Match Group. Together they cover:X tweaks rules to formally allow adult content (TechCrunch)Temu joins Shein in facing stricter regulation in the EU (The Verge)Facebook’s Taylor Swift Fan Pages Taken Over by Animal Abuse, Porn, and Scams (404 Media)Post-January 6th dep...

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53:04

Won't Someone Please Think of the Adults?

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2024/05/31

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:EU Explores Whether Telegram Falls Under Strict New Content Law (Bloomberg)Too Small to Police, Too Big to Ignore: Telegram Is the App Dividing Europe (Bloomberg) NIST Reports First Results From Age Estimation Software Evaluation (NIST) Supersharers of fake news on Twitter (Science) Digital town square? Nextdoor's offline contexts and online discourse (JQD...

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57:42

Deepfake It Till You Make It

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2024/05/24

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Meta and Coinbase link up with Match to fight pig-butchering, romance scams (Fortune)Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve (Wired)Meta says AI-generated election content is not happening at a “systemic level” (MIT Technology Review)How Bluesky is thinking about spam (Bluesky)French TikTok block in overseas territory se...

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48:11

Do You Really Want the Government in Your DMs?

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2024/05/17

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Commission opens formal proceedings against Meta under the Digital Services Act related to the protection of minors on Facebook and Instagram (European Commission)Meta, TikTok, other platforms told to expect EU guidelines soon on child protection, age verification (MLex)Got a text that you think is a scam? S’pore’s new centre to fight online harms can help verify it (Str...

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51:20

Between a Rock and a Hard Policy

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2024/05/10

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership (Tom's Hardware)Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online (Ofcom)Reddit Lays Out Content Policy While Seeking More Licensing Deals (Bloomberg)Extremist Militias Are Coordinating in More Than 100 Facebook Groups (Wired)Politicians Scapegoat Social Media While Ignoring Real S...

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64:28

This One Weird Trick to Save the Open Internet

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2024/05/03

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