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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: Pennsylvania Becomes Hot Spot for Election Disinformation (NY Times) After Trump Took the Lead, Election Deniers Went Suddenly Silent (NY Times) X Is a White-Supremacist Site (The Atlantic) Papers, Please? The Republican Plan to Wall Off the Internet (Tech Policy Press)...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: These look like Harris ads. Trump backers bought them (Washington Post) Facebook Took More Than $1 Million For Ads Sowing Election Lies (Forbes) Election officials are outmatched by Elon Musk’s misinformation machine (CNN) Election Falsehoods Take Off on YouTube as It L...

Ben and Mike are technically off this week, but we decided to run an experiment. After discussing Google’s NotebookLM and its ability to create AI-generated podcasts about any content, Mike experimented with how it would handle one of the stories Mike & Ben discussed last week: Daphne Keller’s The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform on Lawfare. Mike explains why we’re running this, some of t...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: How Russian disinformation is reaching the U.S. ahead of the 2024 election (NBC News) The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform (Lawfare) ExTwitter Makes It Official: Blocks Are No Longer Blocks (Techdirt) People are flocking to Bluesky as X makes more unwanted changes...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: States sue TikTok over app’s effects on kids’ mental health (CNBC) Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media (Substack) Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control (The Verge) TikTok lays off hundreds in Malaysia in move toward AI moderation (Asia Nikkei) ​​Meta...

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Professor Kate Klonick, who has studied and written about trust & safety for many years and is currently studying the DSA & DMA in the EU as a Fulbright Scholar. They cover: EU Commission’s Digital Fairness Fitness Check (European Commission) Differences in m...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Cathryn Weems, who has held T&S roles at Yahoo, Google, Dropbox, Twitter and Epic Games. They cover: Google outlines plans to help you sort real images from fake (The Verge) Fake AI “podcasters” are reviewing my book and it’s freaking me out (Ars Technica) ...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Breton’s resignation could mark a new chapter for EU digital policy (Euractiv) Finnish horse enthusiast is an EU tech front-runner (Politico) Instagram, Facing Pressure Over Child Safety Online, Unveils Sweeping Changes (New York Times) Instagram to make teenagers’ prof...

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Riana Pfefferkorn , a Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human Centered AI. They cover: Australia threatens fines for social media giants enabling misinformation (Reuters) Social media ban for children to be introduced this year, but age limit undeterm...

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...

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 Mu...

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 Bo...

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 Go...

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 disinfo...

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 powe...

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) C...

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 whil...

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 W...

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...

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 t...

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 Se...

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 cour...

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 Interne...

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) Face...

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...