Sell Me Lies, Sell Me Sweet Meta Lies

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

• ‘It’s not like we knowingly have bad ads’: Meta on ad fraud, teen safety, and why AI will not replace agencies (The Media Leader)
• Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India (BBC)
• Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out (Wired)
• At 17, She Sued Meta and Google, and Won. Now She’s Ready to Tell Her Story (Bloomberg)

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

• Beijing is looking at curbing overseas access to China's top AI models, sources say (Reuters)
• Fable 5 Is Back After Anthropic Irons Out Security Concerns With US Government (PC Mag)
• AI Giants Are Handing Out Tons of Free Computing Power to Grab Startup Share (WSJ)
• Introducing Tokens to the Future: Token Grants to AI Builders (LinkedIn)
• OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake (Financial Times)

Our fun links this week are Roost, the “slow-cial” messaging app, and PlotLines for visualizing classic novels on a map.

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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).