Moderating Politics & Politicizing Moderation

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:Meta says it won’t support suit against major child safety law (Washington Post)Obstacles to Autonomy: Post-Roe Removal of Abortion Information Online (Amnesty International)Abortion Groups Say Tech Companies Suppress Posts and Accounts (NY Times)The Stanford Internet Observatory is being dismantled (Platformer)How Politics Broke Content Moderation (Columbia Journalism Review)Propagandists are using AI too—and companies need to be open about it (MIT Tech Review)The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative (Rest of World)An Anonymous-Messaging App Upended This High School (WSJ)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).