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)
• TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban (Techdirt)
• Meta employees criticize Zuckerberg decisions to end fact-checking (CNBC)
• Meta moderators were already in Texas before Zuckerberg announced move, say ex-workers (The Guardian)
• Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All (Wired)
• Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United States (Platformer)
• Brazil expresses concern over Meta’s changes to content moderation (Al Jazeera)
• EU reassesses tech probes into Apple, Google and Meta (Financial Times)
• Despite DEI & content moderation reversals, advertisers won’t flee Meta (The Drum)
• Meta’s ‘free speech’ overhaul sparks advertisers’ concern (Financial Times)
• French Woman Says AI Brad Pitt Scammed Her Out of $850K (Hollywood Reporter)
• French TV show pulled after ridicule of woman who fell for AI Brad Pitt (The Guardian)
• Why This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to Pornhub (404 Media)

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This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.

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).