About this episode
In this week’s roundup of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Ben is joined by guest host Mercy Mutemi, lawyer and managing partner of Nzili & Sumbi Advocates. Together, they cover:
- Meta can be sued in Kenya for human trafficking and for algorithmic amplification of harm (Open Democracy)
- Billy Perrigo on investigating Facebook's 'ethical' outsourced content moderation in Kenya (Everything in Moderation)
- A first look at Meta’s Community Notes (Indicator Media)
- Get Noted (Columbia Journalism Review)
- The Meaning of Being an African YouTuber: Big Audiences, No Big Money + Is TikTok Excluding Africans From its Creator Economy? (Fast Company)
- Is TikTok Excluding Africans From its Creator Economy? (OkayAfrica)
- I was tricked, tortured, finally freed: inside a Burmese scam farm (The Times)
- Tanzania announces shutdown of X because of pornography (BBC)
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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