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The Most Moderated Word on Meta Mar 29, 2024

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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:

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 (Reuters)
Imagining a Roadmap to User-Led Governance of Meta (Tech Policy Press)
Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far (Techdirt)
Meta’s most banned word, ad targeting vs moderation and new civility research (Everything in Moderation)

The episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund. We weren't able to schedule our usual Bonus Chat at the end of the episode so Mike and Ben talk about their thinking on podcast sponsorship, why advertising content doesn't have to be all bad and how you get in touch if you're a company or organization looking to reach Ctrl-Alt-Speech's growing and global audience.

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).

Murthy, Reddit, and the Speech Deciders Mar 22, 2024

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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 Times)
Canada’s Online Harms Act is revealing itself to be staggeringly reckless (Globe and Mail)

The episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund, and by our sponsor Block Party, which builds privacy and anti-harassment tools to increase user control, protection, and safety. In our Bonus Chat at the end of the episode, Block Party founder and CEO Tracy Chou discusses the impact of harassment on self-censorship and explains how she is making navigating privacy and safety settings on major platforms easier for users through her tool, Privacy Party.

The Global Internet - Or Is It? Mar 15, 2024

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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 & Safety software market is set to double by 2028, according to a new report (Duco)

The episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund, and by our launch sponsor Modulate, the prosocial voice technology company making online spaces safer and more inclusive. In our Bonus Chat at the end of the episode, Modulate CEO Mike Pappas joins us to talk about how safety lessons from the gaming world can be applied to the broader T&S industry and how advances in AI are helping make voice moderation more accurate.

Introducing Ctrl-Alt-Speech Mar 04, 2024

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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 joining us for a sponsored interview, visit ctrlaltspeech.com for more information.

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