Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Outsourced But Not Out Of Mind
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 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 investigating Facebook's ethical' outsourced content moderation in Kenya (Everything in Moderation)
- A first look at Meta's Community Notes (Indicator Media)
- Get Noted (Columbia Journalism Review)
- The Meaning of Being an African YouTuber: Big Audiences, No Big Money + Is TikTok Excluding Africans From its Creator Economy? (Fast Company)
- Is TikTok Excluding Africans From its Creator Economy? (OkayAfrica)
- I was tricked, tortured, finally freed: inside a Burmese scam farm (The Times)
- Tanzania announces shutdown of X because of pornography (BBC)
This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.