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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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00:29:55

MC Weekly Update 2/13: Oversight Hearings, PART 1

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2023/02/14

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:A full-day House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter’s decision to temporarily block a New York Post article on Hunter Biden’s laptop delivered on political theater, but failed to produce much new information or a “gotcha” moment from the former executives on the panel who agreed the decision was a mistake, but refuted claims of government influence. - Cat Zakrzewski, Cristiano Lima/ The

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00:30:10

MC Weekly Update 2/7: Requiem for the Bots

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2023/02/07

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Twitter CornerTwitter announced it is ending free API access, potentially cutting off hobbyist developers and their weird and helpful content and tools. - Ryan Browne/ CNBCMusk said the change would help rid the site of malicious bots. But cats might save the internet once again, as the Twitter owner later backtracked, replying to @PepitoTheCat that he might still allow “bots providing good

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00:55:03

Zoom Rethinks its Approach to Content Moderation

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2023/02/02

A little over a year ago, Evelyn interviewed Josh Parecki, Zoom's Head of Trust & Safety and Associate General Counsel, and Josh Kallmer, Zoom's Head of Global Public Policy and Government Relations, about how Zoom thought about content moderation. And since then, they've been doing some rethinking. So Evelyn asked them back to talk about what's changed in the way they think about trust and safety, the change in regulatory landscape even in the last year, and the difficult problems that pop up for

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00:34:50

MC Weekly Update 1/30: No One Expects the Copyright...

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2023/01/31

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:India UpdateAt least some of the YouTube, Meta, and Internet Archive takedowns of clips from a BBC documentary that examines Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political rise were due to copyright claims made by BBC, rather than requests made by the Indian government. Maybe they could have mentioned that a bit earlier? - Rishi Iyengar/ Foreign Policy, Russell Brandom/ Rest of World, Internet

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00:26:06

Meta Reinstates Trump's Accounts

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2023/01/26

Evelyn sits down with Nate Persily, Professor at Stanford Law School, and Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, to discuss Meta's decision that it is reinstating former President Trump's accounts. Nate is pragmatic, Alex is cynical, and Evelyn is a naive little formalist about it all. Here's their quick takes.

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00:32:07

MC Weekly Update 1/23: A Dramatic Escalation in India...

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2023/01/23

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:This should be a far bigger story: India is ordering platforms to take down content related to a BBC documentary. The widely predicted and highly consequential dramatic escalation in India’s legal battles with platforms is here, and we better be watching - Hannah Ellis-Petersen/ The GuardianThe UK Online Safety Bill was back in the House of Commons last week, but the Sunak administration is

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00:44:12

MC Weekly Update 1/16: Looking at the Evidence

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2023/01/17

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:A new study found “no evidence of a meaningful relationship between exposure to the Russian foreign influence campaign and changes in attitudes, polarization, or voting behavior.” - Gregory Eady, Tom Paskhalis, Jan Zilinsky, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua A. Tucker/ Nature Communications, @CSMaP_NYUWe hear from Josh Tucker, a co-author of the paper and co-director of the NYU Center

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00:35:50

MC Weekly Update 1/9: New Year, Same Trust and Safety...

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2023/01/09

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:An EU regulator is putting behavioral advertising at risk and leveling more than $400 million in fines against Meta for Facebook and Instagram privacy violations. - Sam Schechner/ The Wall Street Journal, Vincent Manancourt/ Politico, Adam Satariano/ The New York Times, Stephanie Bodoni/ Bloomberg NewsMore: Meta plans to appeal the ruling against its legal basis for processing data to provide

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00:41:26

MC Weekly Update 12/27: Trust and Safety Does Not...

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2022/12/27

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Senators Chris Coons, Rob Portman, Amy Klobuchar, and Bill Cassidy introduced the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act (PATA) on Wednesday. The Bill would give researchers at universities and nonprofit organizations in the U.S. access to study data from the largest social media companies and provide public transparency on the most widely shared posts, advertising, content moderation

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00:39:15

MC Weekly Update 12/19: Twitter's Thursday Night...

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2022/12/19

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:A bill that would ban TikTok in the U.S. and could be extended to other social media companies with ties to “foreign adversaries” was introduced in the House and Senate, but lacks Democratic co-sponsors in the upper chamber. - Lauren Feiner/ CNBC, Rebecca Shabad/ NBC NewsMeta released its annual report on “Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Enforcements,” noting the milestone of 200 takedowns

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00:45:03

MC Weekly Update 12/12: THE PROPAGANDA PLATFORM (?)

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2022/12/13

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Apple announced plans to expand end-to-end encryption data protections from messages and content on the device to the iCloud service used by many to backup their files and media for access anywhere. - Robert McMillan, Joanna Stern, Dustin Volz/ The Wall Street Journal, Joseph Menn/ The Washington Post, Lily Hay Newman/ Wired, Frank Bajak/ Associated PressCue the music for the Twitter

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00:52:44

New York Attorney General v. Blogging Law Professor...

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2022/12/09

In the wake of the Buffalo shooting in May, New York passed a law imposing certain obligations on social media networks regarding "hateful conduct" on their services. It went into effect at the start of December and Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law who runs a legal blog, is challenging the law as unconstitutional. Evelyn sits down with Eugene and Genevieve Lakier from UChicago Law to discuss.

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00:31:59

MC Weekly Update 12/5: THE MODERATED CONTENT FILES

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2022/12/05

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Using a powerful AI language model developed by OpenAI, the new ChatGPT tool allows anyone to generate short text that is indecipherable from written text and that draws upon vast amounts of publicly available information. - Janus Rose/ Vice, Ina Fried/ AxiosMore: ChatGPT has fun and informative uses, but is also easy to abuse — from generating recipes or funny movie scripts, to the spread of

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00:25:39

MC Weekly Update 11/28: Alex the Demon Overlord

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2022/11/29

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:As protestors against China’s zero-Covid policy fill the streets, images of them fill the internet and China’s censors are struggling to contain them. – Liza Lin, Karen Hao / Wall Street JournalThis is partly because the Chinese people have had years of practice at evading censors and know a trick or two. – Paul Mozur / TwitterSo China is trying to bury that content with its own spam about

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00:28:25

MC Weekly Update 11/21: Bot Populi, Bot Dei

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2022/11/21

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:How else would Elon Musk decide to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account than a Twitter poll? Okay, well maybe the content moderation council he proposed to deal with reinstatement decisions. - Faiz Siddiqui, Drew Harwell, Isaac Arnsdorf / The Washington PostMusk’s mind is also made up on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones whose account will not be reinstated on the platform. - Brian

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00:51:24

“Elon puts rockets into space, he's not afraid of the...

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2022/11/17

Come for the discussion of whether Musk is going to find himself in hot water with the FTC, stay for the discussion of privacy and data security regulation more generally. Evelyn discusses Twitter’s data security problems and what this says about privacy regulation more generally with Whitney Merrill, the Data Protection Officer and Privacy Counsel at Asana and long-time privacy lawyer including as an attorney at the FTC, and Riana Pfefferkorn, a Research Scholar at the Stanford Internet

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00:33:57

MC Weekly Update 11/14: Elections and Elon, again

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2022/11/15

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:The Election Integrity Partnership, led by the Stanford Internet Observatory and the University of Washington Center for an Informed Public, analyzed narratives with the potential to interfere in or delegitimize the 2022 midterm elections. - Election Integrity Partnership, @EI_Partnership, EIP Post-Election Update (.pdf)A divided Congress will likely mean more gridlock with a lot of smoke but

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00:32:55

MC Weekly News Roundup 11/7: The Elon Musk JD Program

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2022/11/07

Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Elon Musk announced that Twitter will start charging $8 for users to keep or gain blue check marks on the platform, changing the meaning of the symbol to indicate subscribers to the “Twitter Blue” service. The company then delayed launch until after the midterms. - Ines Kagubare/ The Hill, @elonmuskBlue-chip companies including General Mills, Pfizer, and Volkswagen have all paused advertising

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00:27:11

MC Weekly News Roundup Halloween Edition

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2022/10/31

SHOW NOTESStanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments:Elon Musk has been busy since officially acquiring Twitter.He tweeted that the company will form “a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.” That sparked comparisons to Meta’s Oversight Board while others noted that Twitter already has a Trust and Safety Council, but wondered if Musk was aware. He also said no major decisions will be made about reinstating

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00:34:49

Musk Flips the Bird

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2022/10/29

Evelyn and Alex talk about, what else, Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. He says he’s freed the bird, but there’s a whole bunch of restraints he clearly hasn’t thought about. He’s got some not-so-fun meetings and phone calls coming up.

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