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 Interoperability? (Techdirt)EU Commission opens formal proceedings against Facebook and Instagram under the Digital...

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 companies agree to crack down on child abuse images (Thorn)Wattpad has a community problem, so it’s killing DMs...

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 to suicide (Bloomberg)The AI That Could Heal a Divided Internet (TIME)Mexican election agency and news...

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 Content and Manipulated Media (Meta) Survey: New Laws Mandate Access To Social Media Data, But Obstacles...

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 Ineffective (Mozilla)Implementing the Online Safety Act: Additional duties for ‘categorised’ online services...

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 Palestinian voices (Access Now)High Court orders temporary suspension of Telegram's services in Spain...

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 Identity (Wired) The Risks of Internet Regulation (Foreign Affairs) EU to impose election safeguards on Big Tech (Financial...

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 messing with elections (Al Jazeera) Bluesky open sources its moderation tooling software (Bluesky) Trust &...

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 coming next Friday! If your company or organization is interested in supporting Ctrl-Alt-Speech and...