A Tale of Two Internets

In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:

• Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference (New York Times)
• AI-Generated Content a Triple Threat for Reddit Moderators (Cornell Tech)
• Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors (404 Media)
• As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era? (The Conversation)
• Winning with misinformation: New research identifies link between endorsing easily disproven claims and prioritizing symbolic strength (The Conversation)
• Tinder Launches Mandatory Facial Verification to Weed Out Bots and Scammers (Wired)

This episode is brought to you by our sponsor Clavata.ai, a first-of-its-kind, automated content safety platform that allows you to go from defining a policy to enforcement in minutes. In our Bonus Chat, we speak with founder Brett Levenson on how to make T&S more consistent and explainable and the benefits of treating policy as code.

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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).