I Bet You Think This Block is About You

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Jim Jordan Demands Advertisers Explain Why They Don’t Advertise On MAGA Media Sites (Techdirt)TikTok Has a Nazi Problem (Wired)NazTok: An organized neo-Nazi TikTok network is getting millions of views (Institute for Strategic Dialogue)How TikTok bots and AI have powered a resurgence in UK far-right violence (The Guardian)Senate Passes Child Online Safety Bill, Sending It to an Uncertain House Fate (New York Tmes)The teens lobbying against the Kids Online Safety Act (The Verge)Social Media Mishaps Aren’t Always Billionaire Election Stealing Plots (Techdirt)X suspends ‘White Dudes for Harris’ account after massive fundraiser (Washington Post)Why Won’t Google Auto-complete ‘Trump Assassination Attempt’? (Intelligencer)‘Technical glitch’ is no longer an excuse (Everything in Moderation from 2020)A message to our Black community (TikTok from 2020)This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund, and by our sponsor Discord. In our Bonus Chat at the end of the episode, Mike speaks to Juliet Shen and Camille Francois about the Trust & Safety Tooling Consortium at Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, and the importance of open source tools for trust and safety.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).