Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderations 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.