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In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous (Techdirt)
- US presses Brussels for answers over EU social media law (Politico)
- Inside the Elon Musk-Jim Jordan ‘mind meld’ shaking up Capitol Hill (Politico)
- Musk adds Shell, Nestlé, Lego to X advertiser ‘boycott’ lawsuit (The Hill)
- Musk Shows Us What Actual Government Censorship On Social Media Looks Like (Techdirt)
- In wake of Meta moderation shift, advertisers have accepted new status quo: brand safety is a myth (Digiday)
- Meta sees no ‘noticeable impact’ in advertiser demand since content policy shift (Marketing Week)
- Amazon Raises Its Ad Spending on Elon Musk’s X, in Major Reversal (Wall Street Journal)
- Senator Hawley Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek (404 Media)
- Apple Blasts EU Laws After First Porn App Comes to iPhones (Bloomberg)
This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund.
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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).
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