In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- Jack Cable calls out Cluely over bogus DMCA (X)
- The cofounder of the viral AI 'cheating' startup Cluely says he only hires people for 2 jobs (Business Insider)
- Missouri AG: Any AI That Doesn’t Praise Donald Trump Might Be “Consumer Fraud” (No, Really) (Techdirt)
- Instagram wrongly accuses some users of breaching child sex abuse rules (BBC)
- Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot praises Adolf Hitler on X (FT)
- Grok Becomes ‘MechaHitler,’ Twitter Becomes X: How Centralized Tech Is Prone To Fascist Manipulation (Techdirt)
- See the leaked teen social media ban tech trial report that has experts worried (Crikey)
- New anti-fraud system is labelling hospital texts and other legitimate messages as ‘likely scam’ (Irish Independent)
- Why Ireland’s New “Scam Likely” Labels Might Actually Make SMS Fraud Worse for Banks and the Public (Medium)
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