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The Techdirt Podcast, hosted by Michael Masnick.
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly news podcast co-created by Techdirt’s Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. Each episode looks at the latest news in online speech, covering issues regarding trust & safety, content moderation, regulation, court rulings, new services & technology, and more. The podcast regularly features expert guests with experience in the trust & safety/online speech worlds, discussing the ins and outs of the news that week and what it may mean for the indust ...
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A few weeks ago, Mike was the moderator on a panel hosted by CCIA all about link taxes — the various problematic efforts around the world to force internet companies to pay media outlets for sending them traffic. The panel featured Public Knowledge Policy Director Lisa Macpherson, Lion Publishers Executive Director Chris Krewson, and lawyer Cathy G…
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Spotlight: Modulate CEO Mike Pappas on Voice Moderation
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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 increas…
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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: 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…
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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 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 (Polit…
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It was over six years ago when we last had Renée DiResta on the podcast for a detailed discussion about misinformation and disinformation on social media. Since then, she's not only led extensive research on the subject, she's also become a central figure in the fever-dream conspiracy theories of online disinformation peddlers. Her new book Invisib…
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech Minisode: The Supreme Court’s NetChoice Ruling
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The hosts of Ctrl-Alt-Speech are both on vacation this week, but 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…
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Minisode: The Supreme Court's NetChoice Ruling
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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 cou…
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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 Protec…
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We weren't planning to do a series, but after our last two episodes with Alice Marwick and then Candice Odgers, things have lined up nicely for a trifecta of episodes about the current moral panic around kids and social media. This week, we're joined by Dr. Devorah Heitner, an expert on kids and technology and author of the recent book Growing Up I…
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This Podcast May be Hazardous to Moral Panics
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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…
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What An Actual Expert Thinks About Kids & Social Media
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In the conversation about keeping kids safe online, the actual experts with the most to offer are all too often treated as outsiders and interlopers. One such expert is Candice Odgers, Professor of Psychological Science and Informatics at the University of California Irvine, who has recently been involved in a lot of debates against people who are …
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Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation
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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…
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A Primer On Child Online Safety Legislation
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There's a broad legislative push for rules that would (supposedly) protect kids online. But as we've written about at length, while the concern for teen mental health might be genuine, the legislative response is highly problematic and based on a misdiagnosis of the underlying problems. This week, we're joined by UNC's Alice Marwick, one of a group…
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The Internet is (Still) for Porn, with Yoel Roth
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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 …
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The Importance Of Section 230 For Online Communities
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At the latest committee hearing about its repeal bill, Congress finally deigned to bring in one witness who spoke in defense of Section 230. Engine Executive Director Kate Tummarello got a little bit of time to explain how Section 230 isn't about protecting big tech, it's about protecting the hosts and users of all kinds of extremely important and …
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Won't Someone Please Think of the Adults?
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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: 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 Evalu…
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Deepfake It Till You Make It (Teaser)
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Check out Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Mike Masnick's brand new podcast with Ben Whitelaw, creator of the Everything in Moderation newsletter.In this teaser excerpt from last week's episode, Mike and Ben discuss a fascinating story about how political deepfakes are being used in the Indian election - but not in the way you might expect.Listen to the whole epis…
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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 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 …
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Platform Moderation Or Individual Control?
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As decentralized social media experiments continue, we're getting more and more opportunities to really understand the impact of decentralized systems and how they are received by users. Amy Zhang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington, has been studying and thinking about these issues a lot, and this week she join…
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Do You Really Want the Government in Your DMs?
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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: 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 so…
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There's no shortage of prognostication about the future of generative AI, including plenty of predictions that it won't actually be around forever for various reasons. A lot of these takes are a little too speculative or just not very interesting, but one that stands out comes from law professor and returning podcast guest Eric Goldman, who joins u…
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