Presidents & Precedents

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

• Pennsylvania Becomes Hot Spot for Election Disinformation (NY Times)
• After Trump Took the Lead, Election Deniers Went Suddenly Silent (NY Times)
• X Is a White-Supremacist Site (The Atlantic)
• Papers, Please? The Republican Plan to Wall Off the Internet (Tech Policy Press)
• What Trump's Victory Means for Internet Policy (CNET)
• The government plans to ban under-16s from social media platforms. Here's what we know so far (ABC Australia)
• Canada orders shutdown of TikTok's Canadian business, app access to continue (Reuters)

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).