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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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Our second annual live at TrustCon recording of Ctrl-Alt-Speech! Ben was unable to make the trip halfway around the world, but Mike was joined by trust & safety influencer Alice Hunsberger from Musubi and Ashken Kazaryan, a Senior Legal Fellow at the Future of Free Speech at Vanderbilt University. They cover: As millions adopt Grok to fact-check, m…
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The UK Wants Us To Ask Your Age Before You Listen
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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: a16z-Backed AI Site Civitai Is Mostly Porn, Despite Claiming Otherwise (404 Media) Hugging Face Is Hosting 5,000 Nonconsensual AI Models of Real People (404 Media) Ofcom head says age checks are ‘really big moment’ for childr…
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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: Jack Cable calls out Cluely over bogus DMCA (X) The cofounder of the viral AI 'cheating' startup Cluely says he only hires people for 2 jobs (Business Insider) Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Co…
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Don't Believe What This Podcast Says About Misinformation
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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: The Misleading Panic over Misinformation (Cato Institute) Claims that Online Misinformation Fears Are Overblown ‘Radically Understates’ the Scale of the Threat (Byline Times) EU Disinformation Code Takes Effect Amid Censorshi…
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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Bridget Todd, a technology and culture writer, speaker and trainer and host of two great podcasts, There are No Girls on the Internet and IRL: Online Life is Real Life. Together, they cover: AI Models And Parents Don’t…
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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Mercy Mutemi, lawyer and managing partner of Nzili & Sumbi Advocates. Together, they cover: Meta can be sued in Kenya for human trafficking and for algorithmic amplification of harm (Open Democracy) Billy Perrigo on in…
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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: He’s a Master of Outrage on X. The Pay Isn’t Great. (NY Times) The vulnerable teen drawn into far-right extremism online (Financial Times) X, Bluesky and Reddit in France’s crosshairs amid porn clampdown (Politico) EU sideste…
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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Zeve Sanderson, the founding Executive Director of the NYU Center for Social Media & Politics. Together, they cover: If algorithms radicalize a mass shooter, are companies to blame? (The Verge) Large Language Models A…
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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Hank Green, popular YouTube creator and educator. After spending some time talking about being a creator at the whims of platforms, they cover: Crash Course Coin (Complexly) Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through Coll…
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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Cathy Gellis, an internet and First Amendment lawyer. Together, they cover: The Copyright Office Issues A Largely Disappointing Report On AI Training, And Once Again A Major Fair Use Analysis Inexplicably Ignores The …
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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: The group chats that changed America (Semafor) Curtis Yarvin Says Democracy Is Done. Powerful Conservatives Are Listening (New York Times) Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators (The Guardian) …
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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: 4chan is dead. It's Toxic Legacy is everywhere (Wired) Wide-Ranging Decisions Protect Speech and Address Harms (Oversight Board) Meta’s oversight board rebukes company over policy overhaul (Reuters) Why Techdirt Is Now A Demo…
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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: Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Failed Negotiations to End Antitrust Case (Wall Street Journal) Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiping all Facebook friends lists to boost usage (The Verge) Would You Give PornHub Your ID? (The Atlanti…
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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Prateek Waghre, former executive director at the Internet Freedom Foundation and currently a fellow at Tech Policy Press. Together, they cover: BookMyShow Restores Kunal Kamra’s Profile After Controversy (Medianama) Ku…
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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: Zuckerberg Tries to Enlist Trump in Fight Against Meta EU Ruling (WSJ) EU set to limit Apple and Meta fines to avoid ire of Donald Trump (Financial Times) Adolescence hard to watch as a dad, Starmer tells creators (BBC) ‘Adol…
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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: X takes Indian govt to court, alleges arbitrary censorship of content (Business Standard) India criticises X for calling compliance website a censorship tool (Reuters) Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civi…
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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: Twitter Inc. Official 'Bird Logo' Fascia Sign - An Iconic Fixture from the Company’s Market Square Headquarters in San Francisco (RR Auction) AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality (404 Media) …
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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media (YouTube) The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weapon (The Verge)…
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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Kat Duffy, Senior Fellow for Digital and Cyberspace Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and CEO of RightsDuff Strategies. They cover: Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) (Techdirt) …
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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: Facebook & Content Moderation (Last Week Tonight with John Oliver) Australia takes enforcement action against Telegram for serious delay in terror and child sexual abuse transparency (eSafety Commission) US judge says Trump M…
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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 are joined by a group of students from the Media Law and Policy class at the American University School of Communication. Together they cover: U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts (Washington Post) US lawmake…
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Digital Oligarchs Gunning for Europe (DOGE)
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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: Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous (Techdirt) US presses Brussels for answers over EU social media law (Politico) Inside the Elon Musk-Jim Jordan ‘mind meld’ shaking up Ca…
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In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Renee DiResta, associate research professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. They cover: The new free speech crisis hiding in plain sight (MSNBC) ‘Free Speech’ Warrior RFK Jr. Has Been …
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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: Application Of Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act To TikTok (The White House) Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship (The White House) America Is No Longer the Home of t…
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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: TikTok Oral Arguments (Supreme Court) Biden administration looks for ways to keep TikTok available in the U.S. (NBC News) Trump considers executive order hoping to ‘save TikTok’ from ban or sale in U.S. law (Washington Post) …
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