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In this week's round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Cathryn Weems, who has held T&S roles at Yahoo, Google, Dropbox, Twitter and Epic Games. They cover:
- Google outlines plans to help you sort real images from fake (The Verge)
- Fake AI “podcasters” are reviewing my book and it’s freaking me out (Ars Technica)
- We Don't Need Google to Help "Reimagine" Election Misinformation (Tech Policy Press)
- Social media owners top global survey of misinformation concerns (The Guardian)
- Expert Survey on the Global Information Environment (IPIE)
- X’s First Transparency Report Since Elon Musk’s Takeover Is Finally Here (Wired)
- Telegram will now provide some user data to authorities (BBC)
This episode is brought to you with financial support from the Future of Online Trust & Safety Fund, and by our sponsor Concentrix, the technology and services leader driving trust, safety, and content moderation globally. In our Bonus Chat at the end of the episode, clinical psychologist Dr Serra Pitts, who leads the psychological health team for Trust & Safety at Concentrix, talks to Ben about how to keep moderators healthy and safe at work and the innovative use of heart rate variability technology to monitor their physical response to harmful content.
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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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