In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites (The Markup)
- New Tools to Help Protect Against Sextortion and Intimate Image Abuse (Meta)
- Scammers are targeting teenage boys on social media—and driving some to suicide (Bloomberg)
- The AI That Could Heal a Divided Internet (TIME)
- Mexican election agency and news organizations leverage Check (Meedan)
- Benjamin Cohen was falsely accused of the Bondi Junction stabbings. Here's how the lie spread around the world (ABC News)
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