For Meta or Worse

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

• How London become a T&S hub (Everything in Moderation) 
• Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They’re Actually Cheering For (Techdirt)
• Supreme Court Sides With Internet Provider in Copyright Fight Over Pirated Music (New York Times)
• US settles social media censorship case, bars agencies from threatening penalties (Reuters)
• Meta’s latest AI improves its terrible content moderation (The Register)
• Transparency Report 2025 (User Rights)
• An automated moderation error left Tumblr users panicked (The Verge)

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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).