Move Fast and Settle Things

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

• Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform (Techdirt)
• Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Make Sure His Competitors Share His Pain (New York Times)
• Meta settlement opens new front in global fight over social media harm (Reuters)

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

• UK expects Meta to match US child safety measures after $18bn settlement (The Guardian)
• What Meta’s US Settlement on Child Safety Means for Europe  (TechPolicy.Press)
• Did Meta’s Big Settlement Actually Help It? (New York Times)

Our fun links this week include a new table format for food recipes and Rainbolt’s tear-jerking Geoguessr video.

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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).