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In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:

• New 13+ Content Settings for Teen Accounts Expanding Globally on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger (Meta)
• Meta Expands Safety Features for Teenagers (New York Times)
• Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts (Krebs on Security)
• Everyone In This LEGO Dispute Should Have Spoken To A Lawyer Earlier Than They Did (Techdirt)
• Can you go 82-0? (82-0)
• My toddler’s version of a silent disco (Instagram)

And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:

• Enshittification, Despotification, and the Open Internet (Liberalism)

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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).