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Ctrl-Alt-Speech Minisode: The Supreme Court’s NetChoice Ruling

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Mon, Jul 1st 2024 03:25pm - Mike Masnick

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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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 the microphone to join our producer, Leigh Beadon, for a quick mini episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, which we’re also posting to the Techdirt podcast feed. In this short discussion, Mike explains the immediate implications of the ruling, the way it separates procedural questions from its broader guidance on the First Amendment, and what it signals about how the court will evaluate issues like this in the future.

Read more about the NetChoice ruling in our coverage on Techdirt:

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.

Filed Under: content moderation, first amendment, free speech, netchoice, supreme court

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: A Lack Of (Under)Standing

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Fri, Jun 28th 2024 03:40pm - Mike Masnick

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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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:

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 Sextortion (Thorn/NCMEC)
Teens lean on AI for mental health support (Mercury News)
I Paid $365.63 to Replace 404 Media With AI (404 Media)
Companies see backlog in DSA transparency database (Euronews)

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.

Filed Under: ai, artificial intellgience, child safety, dsa, first amendment, free speech, jawboning, mark zuckerberg, murthy v. missouri, supreme court
Companies: meta, snap

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: This Podcast May Be Hazardous To Moral Panics

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Fri, Jun 21st 2024 02:35pm - Mike Masnick

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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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:

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 court became Meta’s customer service hotline (Engadget)
Pornhub to block five more states over age verification laws (The Verge)
New York Outlaws ‘Addictive’ Social Media Feeds For Teen Users (PC Mag)
Meta Oversight Board’s Helle Thorning-Schmidt: ‘Not all AI-generated content is harmful’ (Financial Times)

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.

Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, new york, oversight board, social media, surgeon general, vivek murthy
Companies: anthropic, meta, pornhub

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation

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Fri, Jun 14th 2024 02:28pm - Mike Masnick

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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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:

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 Internet Observatory is being dismantled (Platformer)
How Politics Broke Content Moderation (Columbia Journalism Review)
Propagandists are using AI too—and companies need to be open about it (MIT Tech Review)
The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative (Rest of World)
An Anonymous-Messaging App Upended This High School (WSJ)

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.

Filed Under: ai, artificial intelligence, child safety, content moderation, india, propaganda, roe v wade, stanford internet observatory
Companies: fizz, koo, meta

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The Internet Is (Still) For Porn, With Yoel Roth

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Fri, Jun 7th 2024 03:26pm - Mike Masnick

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

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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)
Facebook’s Taylor Swift Fan Pages Taken Over by Animal Abuse, Porn, and Scams (404 Media)
Post-January 6th deplatforming reduced the reach of misinformation on Twitter (Nature)
Misunderstanding the harms of online misinformation (Nature)
Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War (NY Times)
Twitch terminates all members of its Safety Advisory Council (CNBC)

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.

Filed Under: content moderation, deplatforming, digital services act, disinformation, dsa, eu, gaza, israel, misinformation
Companies: meta, shein, temu, twitch, twitter, x

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Won’t Someone Please Think Of The Adults?

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Fri, May 31st 2024 03:36pm - Mike Masnick

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed.

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 Twitter (Science)
Digital town square? Nextdoor’s offline contexts and online discourse (JQD:DM)
The first social media babies are adults now. Some are pushing for laws to protect kids from their parents’ oversharing (CNN)
TikTok offered an extraordinary deal. The U.S. government took a pass. (Washington Post)
Q&A: Ireland’s Digital Services Coordinator On 100 Days of the DSA (Tech Policy Press)

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.

Filed Under: age estimation, age verification, digital services act, dsa, ireland, nist, social media
Companies: nextdoor, telegram, tiktok, twitter, x

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Deepfake It Till You Make It

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Fri, May 24th 2024 03:30pm - Mike Masnick

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed.

In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund, and by our sponsor TaskUs, a leading company in the trust and safety field providing a range of platform integrity and digital safety solutions. In our Bonus Chat at the end of the episode, TaskUs SVP of Global Offerings Phil Tomlinson tells us about his time at the Trust and Safety Professional Association summit in Dublin, his key takeaways from the event, and the trust and safety lessons learned from well-designed conference lanyards.

Filed Under: artificial intelligence, australia, content moderation, deepfakes, france, india, spam
Companies: bluesky, coinbase, meta, tiktok, twitter, x

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Do You Really Want The Government In Your DMs?

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Fri, May 17th 2024 03:15pm - Mike Masnick

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.

Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed.

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 (MLex)
Got a text that you think is a scam? S’pore’s new centre to fight online harms can help verify it (Straits Times)
Bipartisan Bill To Repeal Section 230 Defended In Facts-Optional Op-Ed (Techdirt)
Indian journalists turned to YouTube to dodge Modi’s censorship. Some of their channels are now being blocked (Reuters Institute for Journalism)
She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (The Guardian)
Commission services sign administrative arrangement with Ofcom to support the enforcement of social media regulations (Pub Affairs Bruxelles)
Singapore’s proposed online safety laws look like more censorship in disguise (Rest of World)

This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.

Filed Under: content moderation, deepfakes, digital services act, eu, india, ofcom, section 230, singapore
Companies: facebook, instagram, meta, tiktok, youtube

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Between A Rock And A Hard Policy