Best Mike Masnick & Ben Whitelaw Podcasts (2024)

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Nothing to FCC Here 51:37

1h ago51:37

51:37

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host David Sullivan, the Executive Director of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. They cover: Trump's FCC Pick Wants to Be the Speech Police. That's Not His Job (Wired) Sauce for the Goose: The FCC Lacks Authority to …

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Locate Your Nearest X-it 51:41

1h ago51:41

51:41

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia follows The Guardian in quitting Elon Musk’s X due to disinformation and ‘disturbing content’ (Fortune) Bluesky attracts millions as users leave Musk's X after Trump win (Reuters) Advertisers s…

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Presidents & Precedents 45:18

5d ago45:18

45:18

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Pennsylvania Becomes Hot Spot for Election Disinformation (NY Times) After Trump Took the Lead, Election Deniers Went Suddenly Silent (NY Times) X Is a White-Supremacist Site (The Atlantic) Papers, Please? The Republican Plan…

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Sorry, This Episode Will Not Cheer You Up 58:25

13d ago58:25

58:25

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: These look like Harris ads. Trump backers bought them (Washington Post) Facebook Took More Than $1 Million For Ads Sowing Election Lies (Forbes) Election officials are outmatched by Elon Musk’s misinformation machine (CNN) El…

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Minisode: The Robots Take Over Ctrl-Alt-Speech 25:33

27d ago25:33

25:33

Ben and Mike are technically off this week, but we decided to run an experiment. After discussing Google’s NotebookLM and its ability to create AI-generated podcasts about any content, Mike experimented with how it would handle one of the stories Mike & Ben discussed last week: Daphne Keller’s The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform on Lawfare. M…

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Regulate, Rinse, Repeat 1:00:30

27d ago1:00:30

1:00:30

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: How Russian disinformation is reaching the U.S. ahead of the 2024 election (NBC News) The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform (Lawfare) ExTwitter Makes It Official: Blocks Are No Longer Blocks (Techdirt) People are flocking…

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An Appeal a Day Keeps the Censor Away 52:12

1M ago52:12

52:12

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: States sue TikTok over app’s effects on kids’ mental health (CNBC) Risks vs. Harms: Youth & Social Media (Substack) Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control (The Verge) TikTok lays off hundreds in Malaysia in move t…

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Moderation has a Well-Known Reality Bias 1:00:59

2M ago1:00:59

1:00:59

In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Professor Kate Klonick, who has studied and written about trust & safety for many years and is currently studying the DSA & DMA in the EU as a Fulbright Scholar. They cover: EU Commission’s Digital Fairness Fitness Ch…

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Is This The Real Life? Is This Just Fakery? 1:07:23

2M ago1:07:23

1:07:23

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Cathryn Weems, who has held T&S roles at Yahoo, Google, Dropbox, Twitter and Epic Games. They cover: Google outlines plans to help you sort real images from fake (The Verge) Fake AI “podcasters” are reviewing my book …

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Smells Like Teen Safety 51:52

2M ago51:52

51:52

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Breton’s resignation could mark a new chapter for EU digital policy (Euractiv) Finnish horse enthusiast is an EU tech front-runner (Politico) Instagram, Facing Pressure Over Child Safety Online, Unveils Sweeping Changes (New …

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Blunder from Down Under 54:50

2M ago54:50

54:50

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Riana Pfefferkorn, a Policy Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human Centered AI. They cover: Australia threatens fines for social media giants enabling misinformation (Reuters) Social media ban for children to be …

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Judge, Jury and Moderator 55:20

3M ago55:20

55:20

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Social networks can’t be forced to filter content for kids, says judge (The Verge) Judge Rejects Yet Another Attempt By Texas To Police Online Speech (Techdirt) Telegram apologizes for handling of deepfake porn content in S. …

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The Platform to Prison Pipeline 53:03

3M ago53:03

53:03

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: TikTok must face a lawsuit for recommending the viral ‘blackout challenge’ (The Verge) Third Circuit’s Section 230 TikTok Ruling Deliberately Ignores Precedent, Defies Logic (Techdirt) France charges Telegram CEO Pavel Durov,…

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ChatGPT Told Us Not to Say This, but YOLO 1:01:35

3M ago1:01:35

1:01:35

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Daphne Keller, the Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford's Cyber Policy Center. They cover: Ninth Circuit Rules in Favor of NetChoice Over California’s Age Appropriate Design Code (Ninth Circuit)…

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Do Not Leave a Fake Review for this Podcast 52:52

3M ago52:52

52:52

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: EU takes shot at Musk over Trump interview — and misses (Politico) Online Safety Act not fit for purpose after far-right riots, says Sadiq Khan (The Guardian) See why AI detection tools can fail to catch election deepfakes (T…

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Should Speech Cost a GARM and a Leg? 1:03:09

4M ago1:03:09

1:03:09

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Bluesky adds Techdirt founder Mike Masnick to its board (TechCrunch) X, Owned by Elon Musk, Brings Antitrust Suit Accusing Advertisers of a Boycott (New York Times) WFA Shutters GARM, X Antitrust Suit Cited (MediaPost) UK fac…

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I Bet You Think This Block is About You 1:03:04

4M ago1:03:04

1:03:04

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Jim Jordan Demands Advertisers Explain Why They Don’t Advertise On MAGA Media Sites (Techdirt) TikTok Has a Nazi Problem (Wired) NazTok: An organized neo-Nazi TikTok network is getting millions of views (Institute for Strateg…

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Live at TrustCon 2024 1:00:50

4M ago1:00:50

1:00:50

In the first ever live recording of Ctrl-Alt-Speech, Mike and Ben are joined at TrustCon 2024 by Dona Bellow, Platform Safety Policy at Reddit, and Alice Hunsberger, PartnerHero’s VP of Trust & Safety and Content Moderation, to round up the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, including: Meta content moderation …

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Spotlight: Modulate CEO Mike Pappas on Voice Moderation 36:07

4M ago36:07

36:07

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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Conspiracies Abhor a Vacuum 53:21

4M ago53:21

53:21

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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Over to EU, Elon 43:24

5M ago43:24

43:24

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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Minisode: The Supreme Court's NetChoice Ruling 19:23

5M ago19:23

19:23

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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A Lack of (Under)Standing 55:39

5M ago55:39

55:39

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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This Podcast May be Hazardous to Moral Panics 52:44

5M ago52:44

52:44

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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Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation 49:21

5M ago49:21

49:21

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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The Internet is (Still) for Porn, with Yoel Roth 52:44

6M ago52:44

52:44

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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Won't Someone Please Think of the Adults? 53:04

6M ago53:04

53:04

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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Deepfake It Till You Make It 57:42

6M ago57:42

57:42

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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Do You Really Want the Government in Your DMs? 48:11

6M ago48:11

48:11

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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Between a Rock and a Hard Policy 51:20

7M ago51:20

51:20

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover: Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership (Tom's Hardware) Tech firms must tame toxic algorithms to protect children online (Ofcom) Reddit Lays Out Content Policy While Seeking More Licensing…

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This One Weird Trick to Save the Open Internet 1:04:28

7M ago1:04:28

1:04:28

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 C…

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The Bell Tolls for TikTok 54:53

7M ago54:53

54:53

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 …

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The Difficulty of Being a Teen Online 52:40

7M ago52:40

52:40

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 …

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Watch Out, AI is Getting More Persuasive 41:05

8M ago41:05

41:05

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) …

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Are Platforms Ready for Elections? 57:33

8M ago57:33

57:33

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 Intervent…

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The Most Moderated Word on Meta 54:52

8M ago54:52

54:52

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 g…

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Murthy, Reddit, and the Speech Deciders 58:41

8M ago58:41

58:41

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 …

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The Global Internet - Or Is It? 50:54

8M ago50:54

50:54

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 T…

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Introducing Ctrl-Alt-Speech 3:53

9M ago3:53

3:53

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…

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