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In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: He’s a Master of Outrage on X. The Pay Isn’t Great . (NY Times) The vulnerable teen drawn into far-right extremism online (Financial Times) X, Bluesky and Reddit in France’s crosshairs amid porn clampdown (Politico) EU sidesteps Macron’s ultimatum to ban social media fo...

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Zeve Sanderson, the founding Executive Director of the NYU Center for Social Media & Politics. Together, they cover: If algorithms radicalize a mass shooter, are companies to blame? (The Verge) Large Language Models Are More Persuasive Than Incentivized Human Per...

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Hank Green, popular YouTube creator and educator. After spending some time talking about being a creator at the whims of platforms, they cover: Crash Course Coin (Complexly) Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College (NY Mag) The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and...

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Cathy Gellis, an internet and First Amendment lawyer. Together, they cover: The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The First Amendment (Techdirt) Trump fires Copyright O...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: The group chats that changed America (Semafor) Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening (New York Times)  Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators (The Guardian)  Social media moderators’ lives are getting...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: 4chan is dead. It's Toxic Legacy is everywhere (Wired) Wide-Ranging Decisions Protect Speech and Address Harms (Oversight Board) Meta’s oversight board rebukes company over policy overhaul (Reuters) Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) (...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Failed Negotiations to End Antitrust Case (Wall Street Journal) Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiping all Facebook friends lists to boost usage (The Verge)  Would You Give PornHub Your ID? (The Atlantic)  How Social-Media Sites Can Fight Hate Wi...

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Prateek Waghre, former executive director at the Internet Freedom Foundation and currently a fellow at Tech Policy Press. Together, they cover: BookMyShow Restores Kunal Kamra’s Profile After Controversy (Medianama) Kunal Kamra show audience members served notices (Th...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Zuckerberg Tries to Enlist Trump in Fight Against Meta EU Ruling (WSJ) EU set to limit Apple and Meta fines to avoid ire of Donald Trump (Financial Times) Adolescence hard to watch as a dad, Starmer tells creators (BBC) ‘Adolescence’ on Netflix: A painful wake-up call a...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: X takes Indian govt to court, alleges arbitrary censorship of content (Business Standard) India criticises X for calling compliance website a censorship tool (Reuters) Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest (Politico) Elon Musk pressured Reddi...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Twitter Inc. Official 'Bird Logo' Fascia Sign - An Iconic Fixture from the Company’s Market Square Headquarters in San Francisco (RR Auction) AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality (404 Media) Spain to impose massive fines for n...

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media (YouTube) The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weapon (The Verge) Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Ac...

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Kat Duffy, Senior Fellow for Digital and Cyberspace Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and CEO of RightsDuff Strategies. They cover: Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) (Techdirt) America’s Global Presence Isn’t ‘Soft Power.’ It’s...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Facebook & Content Moderation (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver) Australia takes enforcement action against Telegram for serious delay in terror and child sexual abuse transparency (eSafety Commission)  US judge says Trump Media, Rumble need not follow Brazilian o...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben are joined by a group of students from the Media Law and Policy class at the American University School of Communication. Together they cover: U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts (Washington Post) US lawmakers respond to the UK’s Apple encryption backd...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous (Techdirt) US presses Brussels for answers over EU social media law (Politico) Inside the Elon Musk-Jim Jordan ‘mind meld’ shaking up Capitol Hill (Politico) Musk adds Shell, Nestlé...

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Renee DiResta, associate research professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. They cover: The new free speech crisis hiding in plain sight (MSNBC) ‘Free Speech’ Warrior RFK Jr. Has Been Trying To Censor a Blogger for Years (Who What Why...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Application Of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act To TikTok (The White House) Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship (The White House) America Is No Longer the Home of the Free Internet (The Atlantic) Good morning,...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: TikTok Oral Arguments (Supreme Court) Biden administration looks for ways to keep TikTok available in the U.S. (NBC News) Trump considers executive order hoping to ‘save TikTok’ from ban or sale in U.S. law (Washington Post) TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chin...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Here's why Meta ended fact-checking, according to experts (ABC News) Meta Follows Elon Musk’s Lead, Moves Staffers to Billionaire-Friendly Texas (Wired) Leaked Meta Rules: Users Are Free to Post “Mexican Immigrants Are Trash!” or “Trans People Are Immoral” (The Int...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Social media platforms have work to do to comply with Online Safety Act, says Ofcom (The Guardian) LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) (LFGSS) The GamingOnLinux Forum is shutting (GamingOnLinux) Australia...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: He was suicidal and needed help. A 15-year-old girl pushed him to kill himself on a live stream (Washington Post) Romania’s top court annuls presidential election result (CNN) Continuing to protect the integrity of TikTok during Romanian elections (TikTok) Covert Facebo...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: TikTok Ban Upheld (DC Circuit) TikTok’s Romanian reckoning (Politico) Romania asks EU to investigate TikTok’s election handling after ultranationalist’s stunning win (Politico) TikTok Removes Covert Network Linked to Romanian Candidate (Bloomberg) GOP FTC Commissioners...

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host David Sullivan, the Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. They cover: Trump's FCC Pick Wants to Be the Speech Police. That's Not His Job (Wired) Sauce for the Goose: The FCC Lacks Authority to Interpret Section 230 Post-Loper Bri...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia follows The Guardian in quitting Elon Musk’s X due to disinformation and ‘disturbing content’ (Fortune) Bluesky attracts millions as users leave Musk's X after Trump win (Reuters) Advertisers set to return to X as they seek favour wi...