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Moderated Content
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Moderated Content from Stanford Law School is podcast content about content moderation, moderated by assistant professor Evelyn Douek. The community standards of this podcast prohibit anything except the wonkiest conversations about the regulation—both public and private—of what you see, hear and do online.
Episodes
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The Election on Earth 3817
Alex and Evelyn talk about what has been happening on social media, and the discourse about what has been happening on social media, in the run up to the 2024 US Election, how it compares to past US elections, and what to watch in the aftermath.
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Elon Musk's Six Wolves (And Character Limits)
Alex and Evelyn sit down with New York Times technology reporters Ryan Mac and Kate Conger to talk about their new book on Elon Musk's acquisition (and destruction) of Twitter, Character Limit, and where they think Musk goes from here.
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MC LIVE 9/27
Alex and Evelyn repeat the now-annual tradition of recording the podcast in front of probably their entire active listener base. They are joined by David Thiel, Brian Fishman, and Daphne Keller, to say goodbye to Theirry Breton and RT's accounts on Meta, talk about Zuckerberg's retreat from...
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Brazil Bans Elon Musk's X
Alex and Evelyn are joined by Carlos Affonso Souza, a Professor of Law at Rio de Janeiro State University and the Director of the Institute for Technology & Society in Rio de Janeiro, to talk about Brazil's ban of X, the local legal and political context, and how this is similar or different to...
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The Arrest of Telegram's CEO
Alex and Evelyn discuss the arrest and charges against Telegram's CEO, Pavel Durov, in France, what we do and don't know, and what it means for the future of platform regulation, with Frédérick Douzet, Professor at the French Institute of Politics and the director of GEODE, and Daphne Keller,...
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News Update 8/13: DDoS Attacks Everywhere
Alex and Evelyn talk about Trump's return to X and other platforms, Thierry Breton's attempt to make it all about him, the hack and leak of Trump's campaign, the FBI's new rules around communicating with platforms about foreign interference, Apple imposing its 30% commission on Patreon, and a…
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The Supreme Court's Netchoice Ruling
Evelyn sat down with Professor Genevieve Lakier, of the University of Chicago Law School, to discuss the Supreme Court's decision regarding the Texas and Florida social media laws. Not the worst opinion the Supreme Court issued on July 1, but predictably there's a lot to complain about anyway.
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The Supreme Court's Jawboning Decision
The Supreme Court's decision in Murthy v. Missouri is finally here! Evelyn sat down with Professor Genevieve Lakier, of the University of Chicago Law School, to discuss the good, bad and ugly of the opinions.
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News Update 6/25: We're Supposed to be the Good Guys
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: The attention grabbing 404 Media headline “Has Facebook Stopped Trying?” could be on to something. Alex discusses significant disinvestment in trust and safety at Facebook with lots of…
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Moderated Content Book Club
Alex and Evelyn sit down with the authors of two recently released books about our online information ecosystem and what to do about it: Annalee Newitz, author of Stories are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, and Renee DiResta, author of Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn...
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News Update 5/31: Hot Pod Summer
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: OpenAI published its first transparency report on covert influence operations using the company’s AI models finding the tools were used for existing campaigns by Russia, China, Iran and...
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News Update 5/3: An Entirely Substanceless Episode
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: TikTok Tick-Tock A law requiring TikTok parent company ByteDance to divest or face a U.S. ban was passed and signed into law as part of a foreign aid and national security funding…
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Stanford Internet Observatory's CyberTipline Report
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by Stanford Internet Observatory’s Shelby Grossman to discuss SIO’s just-released report on the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Online Child Safety Ecosystem. Read the report here. SIO is also calling for presentation proposals for its annual…
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Kate Starbird on the Changing Online Landscape and... Basketball
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by University of Washington professor Kate Starbird to discuss research on election rumors. Kate Starbird is an associate professor at the University of Washington in the Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering where she is also a...
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MC 3/29: It's the Best of Times, It's the Worst of Times, in Platform Transparency
SHOW NOTES Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: X this week had its lawsuit against the Center for Countering Digital Hate thrown out by a Californian district court. It’s a good and important win for free speech. - Emma…
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The Supreme Court Hearing on Jawboning
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek is joined by Professor Genevieve Lakier of the University of Chicago Law School to discuss the Supreme Court oral arguments in Murthy v. Missouri. For one of their previous conversations on this topic, listen to this episode from September last year talking about the 5th...
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News Update 3/11: Congress Agrees More than We Do on TikTok
Alex and Evelyn discuss the latest bill to ban TikTok and its many flaws; the Gemini image-generation public relations crisis; Apple's fight-picking in Europe; and Texas and Florida's latest great attempts to regulate online speech.
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The NetChoice cases reach the Supreme Court
Alex and Evelyn are joined by Moderated Content's Supreme Court correspondent Daphne Keller to talk about the oral argument in the NetChoice cases this week and what the Supreme Court justices seem to be thinking about whether and how states can regulate internet platforms.
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News Update 2/16: The Boy Who Cried Deepfake?
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Is the deepfake apocalypse finally here? Alex and Evelyn discuss the recent robocalls impersonating President Biden ahead of the New Hampshire primary and sexually explicit fake images of...
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The Legal & Technical Challenges of Computer-Generated CSAM
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos talk to Riana Pfefferkorn and David Thiel of the Stanford Internet Observatory about the technical and legal challenges of addressing computer-generated child sexual abuse material. They mention: Riana’s new paper on the topic, “Addressing…
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Big Tech's Big Tobacco Moment?
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos talk about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with Tech CEOs about “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis.” They mention: The Stanford Internet Observatory’s work on Self-Generated CSAM - David Thiel, Renée DiResta and Alex Stamos /…
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MC 1/19: Casey Newton On His Holiday Reading List
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by Casey Newton of Platformer and Hard Fork to talk about his decision to move his newsletter off of Substack. Casey explains his decision here: Why Platformer is leaving Substack And talks about it on his podcast here: Why Casey Left Substack...
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MC Weekly Update 12/26: The Show Must Go On
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Stanford Internet Observatory’s David Thiel wrote a report documenting Child Sexual Abuse Material in a major dataset used to train AI models - David Thiel / SIO; Samantha Cole / 404…
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MC Weekly Update 12/15: Nonsense Statistics
Alex and Evelyn discuss US military information operations, Threads testing ActivityPub integration, ridiculous statistics about TikTok, YouTube Magic Dust, the Meta Oversight Board moving with all deliberate speed, and First Amendment retaliation claims.
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MC Weekly Update 12/4: The Chip Crunch Problem
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Elon Musk told advertisers to go f*** themselves in an interview with Jona–... sorry, Andrew Ross Sorkin of the NYT. Is this a good business strategy? - Kate Conger and Remy Tumin / The…
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MC Weekly Update 11/21: ClosedAI (Happy Thanksgiving!)
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: In one of the most surprising (and rapidly developing) tech stories of the year, Sam Altman was ousted as CEO of OpenAI. The reasons are still unclear, and the story still changing as we...
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MC Weekly Update 11/15: The Big Game
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Alex participated in the fifth Senate AI Insight Forum focused on AI and its impact on elections and democracy. It turns out politicians can be reasonable and bipartisan when the cameras...
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MC Weekly Update 10/30: Warning, This Podcast Might Be Highly Addictive
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence today. The sweeping EO includes standards setting for generative AI watermarking and...
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MC Weekly Update 10/23: The Enemies of Progress
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of venture capitalism firm Andreessen Horowitz and the Netscape web browser, wrote a lengthy blog post with an ode to technology. He also manages to…
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MC 10/16: Facebook's Ex-Counterterrorism Lead on Moderating Terrorism
Alex and Evelyn talk to Brian Fishman, the former Policy Director for counterterrorism and dangerous organizations at Facebook/Meta, about the history of terrorism online, the challenges for platforms moderating terrorism, and the bad incentives created by misguided political pressure (looking at...
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MC Weekly Update 10/9: Social Media During War
Alex and Evelyn discuss how the horrific events in Israel over the weekend make clear how important social media is during fast-moving historical events, and how X/Twitter has fundamentally degraded as a source of information. They also discuss China's ramped up crack down on app stores, and the...
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MC LIVE 9/28
Alex and Evelyn record an episode in front of probably their entire active listener base. They talk about an update on SIO's investigations into child sexual abuse material on platforms; the fight for free speech in India; the poor outlook for election integrity at X in 2024, and what this might...
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MC Weekly Update 9/19: The Lawyers Always Win
Alex and Evelyn discuss reporting on a proposed deal between TikTok and the US government for it to continue to operate in the country, and the broader geopolitical context of US-China relations; how to think about search-term blocking; YouTube preventing Russell Brand from monetizing his videos…
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The 5th Circuit's Jawboning Ruling
Evelyn sits down with Genevieve Lakier, a Professor at University of Chicago Law School, to discuss the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in Missouri v. Biden, narrowing but affirming a district court injunction prohibiting large parts of the federal government from communicating with platforms...
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MC "Weekly" Update 9/6: We will not be silenced!
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: OpenAI published a blog promoting how the company’s most powerful large language model, GPT-4, is being used to update platform policy and enforce content moderation rules faster and more...
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MC Weekly Update 8/8: 11 Dimensional Free Speech Theory
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: X-Twitter Corner Twitter followed through on its threat to sue the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). The rationale has changed from a violation of the Lanham Act, a federal...
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MC Weekly Update 7/31: It's Complicated
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments. They’re joined this week by NYU’s Joshua Tucker and Stanford’s Jennifer Pan to discuss new studies released from an academic research partnership with Meta on the 2020 U.S. election. The…
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MC Weekly Update: Why?
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: ActivityPub Hub A new Stanford Internet Observatory report by David Thiel and Renée DiResta found a significant issue with child abuse content in the largest decentralized social media...
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MC Weekly Update: Hanging by a Thread
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Threads v. Twitter Instagram’s Twitter competitor Threads is the fastest downloaded app, boasting more than 100 million users within five days despite pretty basic features. - Jay Peters,...
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Government<>Platform Communication, Jawboning, and the First Amendment
On July 4, a district court issued an injunction prohibiting large swathes of the government from communicating with platforms about content moderation in almost any way. Evelyn sits down with Genevieve Lakier, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, to talk about the opinion…
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MC Weekly Update 7/4: Trivial Pursuits
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Twitter Corner Twitter continues to break its product, this time by limiting how many tweets people can see and requiring people to log in to view anything. Advertisers must be thrilled!…
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MC Weekly Update 6/27: Cage-free Eggheads (Are Men Okay?)
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: A new report from the Stanford Internet Observatory and Thorn, a nonprofit working to counter online child sexual exploitation, examines the problem of increasingly realistic images...
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MC Weekly Update 6/19: The Landed Gentry
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Elon Musk’s drastic layoffs, cost saving, and price raising measures were an inspiration for him as some of the most active users of his site went on strike,...
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An Investigation into Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material Networks on Social Media
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos are joined by Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO) Research Manager Renée DiResta and Chief Technologist David Thiel to discuss a new report on a months-long investigation into the distribution of illicit sexual content by minors online. Large Networks of...
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MC Weekly Update 5/6: Good luck, Linda!
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Stanford Internet Observatory research discovered serious failings with Twitter’s detection and removal systems for child abuse content. - Alexa Corse/ The Wall Street Journal…
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MC Weekly Update 5/22: Fizzers and Booms
Alex and Evelyn discuss the Supreme Court decisions in Gonzalez and Taamneh; Montana passing its state-wide TikTok ban and the immediate legal challenge filed against it; Meta's $1.3 billion dollar fine under the GDPR; OpenAI's charm offensive; and just another Monday at Twitter.
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MC Weekly Update 5/15: Turkish Non-delights
Play the sad trombone 5 times for this week's Twitter Corner: Musk censors political content at the behest of the Turkish Government in the final days of a close and historically important election; Linda Yaccarino is announced as the new CEO; Tucker Carlson announces he's going to stream his new...
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MC Weekly Update 5/8: Solving the Head of State Problem
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Pornhub and other pornography websites owned by MindGeek are blocking access for users in Utah with a video message protesting an age verification law that went into effect this past…
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MC Weekly Update 5/1: Flops and VLOPs
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Twitter Corner As we predicted, Musk is complying with more government take-down orders than Twitter used to. - Russell Brandom/ Rest of World Don't expect more reporting though, Twitter...
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MC Weekly Update: Elon Musk JD Program False Advertising Unit
Stanford’s Evelyn Douek and Alex Stamos weigh in on the latest online trust and safety news and developments: Stanford Internet Observatory Research Scholar Riana Pfefferkorn joins the show to discuss the latest developments in child safety policy on Capitol Hill. The EARN IT Act and STOP CSAM…
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Moderated Content from Stanford Law School is podcast content about content moderation, moderated by assistant professor Evelyn Douek. The community standards of this podcast prohibit anything except the wonkiest conversations about the regulation—both public and private—of what you see, hear and do online.
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