Ctrl-Alt-Speech

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 T...

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 (MLe...

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 Ar...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Alex Feerst, former General Counsel and head of trust & safety at Medium, and co-founder of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. Together they cover: Was There A Trojan Horse Hidden In Section 230 All Along That Could Enable Adversarial Interoperabil...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: How to Fix the Online Child Exploitation Reporting System (Stanford Internet Observatory) TikTok faces EU Commission’s second probe, potential suspension of reward program (Euronews) Meta Expands Its Mixed Reality Beyond the Quest Headsets (CNet) The biggest AI companie...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites (The Markup) New Tools to Help Protect Against Sextortion and Intimate Image Abuse (Meta) Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media—and driving some...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Alice Hunsberger, VP of Trust and Safety and Content Moderation at Partnerhero and former Global Head of Customer Experience at Grindr. Together they cover:  Measuring the Persuasiveness of Language Models (Anthropic) Our Approach to Labeling AI-Generated Conten...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation, and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:  Elon Musk's X appoints new safety chiefs as it seeks to rebuild ads business ( Fortune ) X’s ‘complimentary’ Premium push gives people blue checks they didn’t ask for ( The Verge ) Mozilla Research: Platforms’ Election Interventions in the Global Majority Are Ine...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation, and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:  Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default ( ArsTechnica ) Oversight Board Publishes Policy Advisory Opinion on Referring to Designated Dangerous Individuals as “Shaheed” ( Oversight Board ) It’s not a glitch: how Meta systematically censors P...

In this week's online speech, content moderation and internet regulation round-up, Mike and Ben cover:  Supreme Court Seems Skeptical Of The Claims That The Federal Government Coerced Social Media To Moderate ( Techdirt )  Reddit’s I.P.O. Is a Content Moderation Success Story ( New York Times )  Elon Musk's X Is Suspending Accounts That Reveal a Neo-Nazi Cartoonist's Alleged Identit...

In this week's round-up of news about online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:  The US TikTok ban and what it could mean for the future of the internet ( Techdirt )  The EU prepares to regulate Chinese marketplaces ( Reuters )  Telegram's CEO gives a rare interview - and what that says about online speech ( Financial Times )  Generative AI is already...

Welcome to Ctrl-Alt-Speech, a brand new a weekly news podcast co-created by Techdirt’s Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Each episode will be looking at the latest news in online speech, covering issues regarding trust & safety, content moderation, regulation, court rulings, new services & technology, and more. Subscribe now and stay tuned for our debut episode comi...