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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)
  • 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)

If you’re in London on Thursday 30th January, join Ben, Mark Scott (Digital Politics) and Georgia Iacovou (Horrific/Terrific) for an evening of tech policy, discussion and drinks. Register your interest.

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

Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast from Techdirt and Everything in Moderation. Send us your feedback at [email protected] and sponsorship enquiries to [email protected]. Thanks for listening.

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