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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 Interpret Section 230 Post-Loper Bright (The Federalist Society)
  • Roblox gives parents more power to protect the safety of young gamers (NBC)
  • Meta should allow third party imagery of terrorist attacks, with a warning (Oversight Board)
  • As Bluesky soars, Threads rolls out custom feeds globally (TechCrunch)
  • Threads’ algorithm will focus more on the people you follow (The Verge)
  • The communications minister cited a study in support of a teen social media ban. Its co-author disagrees (Crikey)
  • Meta says it has removed 2 million accounts linked to pig butchering scams (The Record)
  • You Too Can Hire an ‘Etsy Witch’ to Curse Elon Musk (Wired)

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).

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