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Former head of trust & safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, discusses adult content rules, EU regulations, and misinformation impacts on Twitter. Topics include Facebook's content challenges, Israel's influence campaigns, Twitch's safety council termination, and balancing user input on platform safety.

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:EU Explores Whether Telegram Falls Under Strict New Content Law (Bloomberg)Too Small to Police, Too Big to Ignore: Telegram Is the App Dividing Europe (Bloomberg) NIST Reports First Results From Age Estimation Software Evaluation (NIST) Supersharers of fake news on Twitter (Science) Digital town square? Nextdoor's offline contexts and online discourse (JQD:DM) The first social media babies are adults now. Some are pushing for laws to protect kids from their parents’ oversharing (CNN) TikTok offered an extraordinary deal. The U.S. government took a pass. (Washington Post) Q&A: Ireland’s Digital Services Coordinator On 100 Days of the DSA (Tech Policy Press)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 podcast@ctrlaltspeech.com and sponsorship enquiries to sponsorship@ctrlaltspeech.com. Thanks for listening.

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Meta and Coinbase link up with Match to fight pig-butchering, romance scams (Fortune)Indian Voters Are Being Bombarded With Millions of Deepfakes. Political Candidates Approve (Wired)Meta says AI-generated election content is not happening at a “systemic level” (MIT Technology Review)How Bluesky is thinking about spam (Bluesky)French TikTok block in overseas territory sets ‘dangerous precedent,’ critics warn (Politico)How a Chinese Influence Operation Is Targeting Pro-Trump Communities Online (Lawfare)X CEO Linda Yaccarino accuses Australia of ‘overreach’ after judge lifts ban on stabbing video (CNBC)This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund, and by our sponsor TaskUs, a leading company in the trust and safety field providing a range of platform integrity and digital safety solutions. In our Bonus Chat at the end of the episode, TaskUs SVP of Global Offerings Phil Tomlinson tells us about his time at the Trust and Safety Professional Association summit in Dublin, his key takeaways from the event, and the trust and safety lessons learned from well-designed conference lanyards. Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast from Techdirt and Everything in Moderation. Send us your feedback at podcast@ctrlaltspeech.com and sponsorship enquiries to sponsorship@ctrlaltspeech.com. Thanks for listening.

This podcast covers the EU investigation into major tech companies for child safety concerns, a new center in Singapore to fight online scams, Indian journalists using YouTube to dodge censorship, a controversial cheerleading video, and the implications of Singapore's proposed online safety laws. Government involvement in online identity, trust and safety tools, and the future of online discussions are also discussed.

Topics include Stack Overflow banning users for rebellion, taming toxic algorithms for child protection, extremist militias on Facebook, TikTok suing US government, Swiss broadcasters leaving Twitter, and TikTok's legal battle with AG.

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike is joined by guest host Alex Feerst, former General Counsel and head of trust & safety at Medium, and co-founder of the Digital Trust & Safety Partnership. Together they cover:Was There A Trojan Horse Hidden In Section 230 All Along That Could Enable Adversarial Interoperability? (Techdirt)EU Commission opens formal proceedings against Facebook and Instagram under the Digital Services Act (European Commission)OnlyFans Investigated over its duties to protect under-18s from restricted materials (Ofcom)Canadian banks need to do more to stop abusive e-transfers, survivors say (CBC)TikTok And Meta Aren’t Labeling State Propaganda About The War In Gaza (Forbes)How we fought bad apps and bad actors in 2023 (Google security blog)Meta’s oversight body prepares to lay off workers (Washington Post)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 podcast@ctrlaltspeech.com and sponsorship enquiries to sponsorship@ctrlaltspeech.com. Thanks for listening.

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:How to Fix the Online Child Exploitation Reporting System (Stanford Internet Observatory)TikTok faces EU Commission’s second probe, potential suspension of reward program (Euronews)Meta Expands Its Mixed Reality Beyond the Quest Headsets (CNet)The biggest AI companies agree to crack down on child abuse images (Thorn)Wattpad has a community problem, so it’s killing DMs (The Verge)Discord CEO Jason Citron makes the case for a smaller, more private internet (The Verge)Stanford Internet Observatory’s CyberTipline Report (Stanford Law School) 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 podcast@ctrlaltspeech.com and sponsorship enquiries to sponsorship@ctrlaltspeech.com. Thanks for listening.

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) Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast from Techdirt and Everything in Moderation. Send us your feedback at podcast@ctrlaltspeech.com and sponsorship enquiries to sponsorship@ctrlaltspeech.com. Thanks for listening.

Alice Hunsberger, VP of Trust and Safety, joins to discuss measuring AI persuasiveness, labeling manipulated media, Brazil's social media laws, URL mishaps, and LinkedIn's verification. They debate content moderation challenges and emphasize the role of trust and safety teams in online safety.

Topics covered include platforms' election interventions, online safety laws in Britain, Patreon's content moderation approach, and Facebook blocking Kansas Reflector. Also, insights on gaming safety coalition collaboration and the importance of a hybrid trust and safety approach in online spaces.